(n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.
(n.) Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blair pressed privatisation, deregulation, outsourcing, PFI, demutualisation and more in fealty to the market and the global corporate world.
(2) What better way for the bowibu to prove their fealty and regain the young leader’s favour than the spectacular elimination of his disloyal sibling?
(3) An intelligence and security committee that goes into brief private session, only to emerge blinking into the daylight with protestations of apparent fealty to the security services, is a poor substitute for grown-up scrutiny.
(4) Cameron has brought him in to review social mobility, and he owes no fealty to Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, denizens of the enemy camp of yesteryear.
(5) Responding to a Guardian report that the British government had considered air strikes against the al-Shabaab militia, which has vowed fealty to al-Qaida, the Somali prime minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, said: "Targeted strikes against al-Qaida in Somalia we would welcome.
(6) Others confess through their mass rapes, choreographed murders and rational self-justifications a primary fealty to nihilism: that characteristically modern-day and insidiously common doctrine that makes it impossible for modern-day Raskolnikovs to deny themselves anything, and possible to justify anything.
(7) Shortly after regaining his freedom, he is believed to have sworn the bayat , the personal oath of fealty, to Bin Laden.
(8) Over the past 10 weeks, perhaps the greatest casualty of this undiscriminating fealty to Game of Thrones (and now to a lesser degree True Detective) is Showtime’s poignant, profound Victorian monster yarn, Penny Dreadful (the show’s finale aired Monday night in the US).
(9) His decisive break with Christianity and subsequent undying fealty to the Islamic empire clearly then occurred at the White House Easter prayer breakfast, where he welcomed the esteemed guests as his " brothers and sisters in Christ ".
(10) If Trump could win points there, just imagine what happened among the people who have no fealty to movement conservatism, who have nurtured a sustained rage at being betrayed or ignored by its bromides , who have been told that conservatism is good for them even as they have seen the middle class begin to crater around them like a suburban Florida neighborhood pockmarking with sinkholes during a long drought.
(11) Reporters are trained that they will be selected as scoop-receivers only if they demonstrate fealty to the agenda of official sources.
(12) The first two – "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" and "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" – come from a time when the Jews still believed in the existence of many gods but had sworn fealty to only one of them, their tribal "jealous" god.
(13) It's likely that religion's popularity is a product of emotion, fear of mortality and the unknown, and yes, fealty to tradition.
(14) The "hop store" bar at the St James Gate brewery now towers over the city like Mordor, reminding the residents below to pay fealty to the god Diageo.
(15) With his Freddy Krueger face and disagreeable fealty to a callow king, Clegane should be a clear-cut baddie, someone to hate just as much as spiteful nyaff Joffrey.
(16) Fealty to founding principles based on respect for human dignity strengthened and renewed a nation, he said.
(17) He criticised the intelligence and security committee for conducting an apparently cursory inquiry, saying that its decision to go "into brief private session, only to emerge blinking into the daylight with protestations of apparent fealty towards the security services is a very poor substitute for grown-up scrutiny.
(18) It seems that independence is a movement of Scotland's societal left, the part that used to profess undying fealty to Labour.
(19) But I don’t give added weight to the lives of innocent Americans as compared to the lives of innocent non-Americans, nor would I feel any special fealty to the US government as opposed to other governments when deciding what to publish … I have no objection to the process whereby the White House is permitted to give input prior to the publication of sensitive secrets.
(20) This is an example of how they demonstrate their loyalty, their fealty.” A spokeswoman for IHMS said: “IHMS refute the allegation that they have encouraged the AFP to target Dr Young.” “The AFP approached IHMS with a request to review an internal investigation conducted into the leak of protected health information.
Feudalism
Definition:
(n.) The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
Example Sentences:
(1) ITV retained its quasi-feudal structure until the 1990s.
(2) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
(3) "The feudals have enslaved the people for generations," he says.
(4) It comes down to politics, where community-based efforts go to waste against the even more historic practice of feudalism.
(5) Suu Kyi's relationship with the generals has reportedly turned sour again In her tireless efforts to secure cooperation from the military, Suu Kyi has repeatedly expressed her appreciation, respect and “genuine” affection for the Tatmadaw (feudal military), which her father founded under Japan’s fascist patronage in December 1942, much to the dismay of many minorities who have borne the brunt of the organisation’s ruthless policies.
(6) The peasantry had unilaterally ceased paying feudal taxes.
(7) According to a recent report from the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, the feudal land ownership system is a brick wall for all development efforts – whether aimed at improving infrastructure, improved water resource management or community mobilisation.
(8) Aristegui’s team not only uncovered the fact that the president’s wife and his finance minister, [Luis] Videgaray, had received a couple of luxurious residences from a big construction conglomerate that was doing business with the federal government; they also exposed a network of corruption, a radiography of how the president is managing the country’s finances as if he was a feudal lord, as if laws, international treaties and transparency did not exist.
(9) (1993), Frank questioned the usefulness of terms such as capitalism, feudalism or socialism, arguing that "too many big patterns in world history appear to transcend or persist despite all apparent alterations in the mode of production".
(10) By taking art out of the gallery and sticking it up, unannounced, in the street, he fostered the idea that he was returning art to the people, a graphic Robin Hood set against the feudal grip of Mayfair's Cork Street.
(11) In rural areas, plantation owners have a grip on local politics in the northeast that is little short of feudal, while the soy and cattle barons of the interior push landless peasants and Indian communities further to the margins.
(12) While Guzmán nurtured his terrain and loyalty like a feudal lord beloved by his people, Los Zetas rule by brute, brazen terror.
(13) But before Game of Thrones was even a series, House Targaryen was toppled by a cabal of sweaty northern feudal lords, headed, naturally, by Mark Addy and Sean Bean.
(14) At the height of the floods, Dasti says, some feudals used their influence to divert the floodwaters away from selected lands, thereby inundating the poor.
(15) Having begun as a castle town at the end of the 1500s under the rule of the feudal warlord Mori Terumoto, by the end of the 19 th century it served as a regional garrison for the Imperial Japanese Army; as a major manufacturing centre, it helped fuel the Japanese empire’s military efforts in the Asia-Pacific.
(16) In his spare time, he is tweeting and blogging with fury, helping to spread his message that it is time to "destroy the feudal system of power" that has occupied the Kremlin.
(17) (“He took the cork out and spilled a little on the wooden plank of the pier; it hissed like steam.”) Only later in the last century did the crime begin to be associated with the developing rather than the developed rather than the developed world, as a function of male oppression and feudalism, rather than the green-eyed cruelty of richer societies.
(18) "We will destroy this feudal system that robs all of you," he said.
(19) "Now we want the state to be a service to the people, not some kind of feudal lord.
(20) They know that the power structure in Mexico is feudal and even if they do their best efforts, they face everyday the challenges of our history.