How To Use Fealty In A Sentence
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Nearly helpless, Harold was forced to swear an oath of fealty to William and to swear further that he would advocate William's cause in England.
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It has been the practice in Ipswich from antiquity that no tenant of tenements in the town held by free burgage do homage or fealty for them to the property's chief lord.
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Llwelyn was forced into a humiliating surrender that included relinquishing control over the eastern part of his territory and an acknowledgment of fealty paid to Edward I annually.
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The Anglo-Saxons used oaths not only to swear fealty to feudal lords, but also to ensure honesty during legal proceedings and transactions.
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In 920 Edmund had accepted Raegnald's fealty and thus acknowledged his status.
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And then all they that longed to the castle came to him, and did him homage and fealty, praying him that he would abide there still a little while to fordo that foul custom.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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The Crusaders would remain for one year in the East to assist the new Emperor; any who remained thereafter would have to take an oath of fealty to him.
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Their fealty to their corporate owners at the expense of their constituents is appalling and should be apparent to voters, but teabaggers are a little dense — it may take some time for them to realize they have been screwed — after all, they get their news from Fox.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 28, 2010
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Osyth's long-delayed release of the woman has nothing to do with the length of the woman's punishment, but rather with the death of the scullion, Osyth's rival for the woman's fealty.
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The Vancouver Winter Games are history now except for that montage — — star-spangled, or maybe maple-leafed, depending on your Olympic fealty.
Americans, Canadians carve indelible images
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I seem to recall that Niven and Pournelle have a black astronaut in Lucifer's Hammer - the one who gives the "we used to control the lightning" speech - and also that in Oath of Fealty the manager of the arcology who gave the order to kill the intruders was black.
Steven King's "The Stand"
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Unless, of course... you three would like to pledge fealty to me?
WATER BOOK THREE: TRANSFORMATION
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The fief overshadowed fealty, the benefice became more important than vassalage, and freemen began to swear allegiance to the highest bidder only.
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Balliol therefore had to perform homage and fealty to Edward before his enthronement.
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Strictly speaking, however, a fief was usually defined as immovable property whose usufruct perpetually conceded to another under the obligation of fealty and personal homage.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The fief overshadowed fealty, the benefice became more important than vassalage, and freemen began to swear allegiance to the highest bidder only.
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The Anglo-Saxons used oaths not only to swear fealty to feudal lords, but also to ensure honesty during legal proceedings and transactions.
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Roberts obtained his justiceship by (i) unethically sitting on, and casting the deciding vote for the Executive on, a court of appeals case from Guantanamo involving the same kind of question at issue in the recent case, while (ii) meeting with Dick Cheney, David Addington, et.al. to assure them of his intellectual fealty to the ideas they wished to prevail.
Evil Judges And Dumb Politicians
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By that I mean a vassal/lord relationship in which the former swears fealty to the latter in return for control of the lands which he owns.
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Our 2006 Faith Matters survey, however, shows that the defection rate among “Anglo” Catholics is twice as high as among Latino Catholics, so in that way Figure 5.2 exaggerates the decline in Catholic fealty in the recent decades.17
American Grace
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These guys need to get their act together and figure out that the “loyal” in loyal opposition is fealty to the country first, and not the party.
Balloon Juice » 2009 » January
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Blind fealty and total subservience is not expected nor wanted.
Balloon Juice » 2005 » June
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Of all the bonds of feudalism, the greatest and the most important bond was the one of fealty, of loyalty to one's lord.
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MITCH MCCONNELL DEFENDS DEBT CEILING GAMBIT - The Senate minority leader -- who might as well have unpinned a grenade, clutched it to his chest and declared an oath of fealty to the Emperor of Japan when he tried to cede debt ceiling authority to President Obama yesterday -- defended his unorthodox proposal.
HUFFPOST HILL - Moody's Might Downgrade U.S., Hobo Clown Futures Skyrocket
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Saving only the fealty which he owed to his father he swore allegiance to Philip against all men.
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Party fealty is praised as a virtue, and disloyalty to party is treated as a species of incivism next in wickedness to treason.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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They brook no compromise and instead repay those who would reach out to them with furious perfidy unless they show absolute fealty to every facet of the program.
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Indian breechclouts and legging pants finished his mismatched uniform of style and fealty.
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As all watched, Maelgwn crossed the sand, knelt before Llewelyn, and swore an oath of homage and fealty to the Prince of Gwynedd.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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All kinds of groups use fear to terrorize the loners and coerce fealty from those who don't want to be a target.
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Homage and fealty performed by the great men after the coronation were arguably of greater practical importance than the ceremony itself.
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In that same vote, Israel abstained, apparently fearing international interference with their own outlaw nuclear weapons program, and Britain abstained in an act of diplomatic fealty to the “special relationship” between Tony Blair and George Bush.
Think Progress » The Pictures of Corruption: How Hastert Used Tax Dollars to Turn a $1.5 Million Profit
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The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White
The Love-Master
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May they soon come, in penitence, to pledge eternal fealty to the nation.
The Curtained Throne
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It has never been part of any serious concept of America to believe that we must show blind fealty to whosoever happens to be in a public office at any given moment.
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Why, look ye," said the latter, as the coin jingled in his bag, "I was ever held in good repute as a guide, and can make my way blindfold over the bogs and mosses hereabout; and I would pilot thee to the place yonder, if my fealty to the prior -- that is -- if -- I mean -- though I was never a groat the richer for his bounty; yet he may not like strangers to pry into his garners and store-houses, especially in these evil times, when every cur begins to yelp at the heels of our bountiful mother; and every beast to bray out its reproaches at her great wealth and possessions.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
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The land was held not "in fee simple" with absolute ownership, a concept which was not a part of English law at the time; but it was granted "in free and common soccage" with the holder a tenant of the King with obligations of fealty and of the payment of a quitrent.
Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699
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A psephological interlude - Splintered Sunrise ha-tip to Mick Fealty: why STV is too good
Linkspam for 18-6-2009
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Therefore, the religious liberty of the individual must be inviolably respected, by the state and by others, whether or not it meets the standards to which others pledge their fealty.
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No, what's important is your unswerving fealty to the Lord.
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The essence of the original feudal system introduced by William I was that tenants of manors or other substantial units of land had obligations to their lords, of which fealty, suit of court, and military service were the most common.
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While President Obama swore fealty to free trade, he also called for "balanced growth," which is diplo-speak for U.S. efforts to get China to spur domestic consumption and rely less on exports.
Will Marshall: Does America Have a China Policy?
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Instead of unquestioned fealty to one's superior officer, an ambitious soldier might now have to think of cosseting the president and the public, via the media.
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To recant is to withdraw or disavow a declared belief, as in renouncing a philosophy or abjuring fealty to a religion.
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A person on his or her face has surrendered their persona or ego identity in repentance or in petition or in adorational worship of that which is greater, be it to a person in fealty or to God as devotional prayer.
Hogwarts Professor
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Today, fealty to corporate paymasters is the driving force.
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The impractical nature of one sovereign having to perform homage as a vassal to another, with ties of fealty that theoretically prevented an independent foreign policy, were unworkable and was a major cause of the Hundred Years War.
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However, before I destroy you utterly, I will give you a chance to swear fealty to me.
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The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White Fang.
The Love-Master
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Rational Review
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He tried to take advantage of Henry's religious imbroglio and retake Northumbria, but was captured at Alnwick and only got out of a dungeon in Norman Falaise by swearing fealty.
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The silver ring, the symbol of his fealty, came off with little difficulty, then the buttons at the cuff of each sleeve.
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Although some patriots point to Colin Powell's UN presentation as evidence of his fealty to Our Leader, I think most would agree that his support was weakhearted at best.
Powell's last act of disloyalty