(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.
Realty
Definition:
(n.) Royalty.
(n.) Loyalty; faithfulness.
(n.) Reality.
(n.) Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in legal language for reality.
(n.) Real estate; a piece of real property.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many of them are still sold by Hollywood Realty, possibly the most famous estate agents in the world.
(2) China’s stock market crash is a problem for the whole world | Isabel Hilton Read more “A lot of high-net-worth individuals had already taken money out of the stock market because it was getting just too hot,” Pallier, the principal of Sydney Sotheby’s International Realty, said.
(3) Nushra Mansuri, the British Association of Social Workers' professional officer, said: "The prime minister would do well to consider the complex realties of adoption before he opines so simplistically – social workers have no wish to be part of delays in placing children for adoption and find bureaucratic processes just as frustrating as everyone else involved."
(4) These would be domestic buyers with cash or foreign buyers who are also getting an extra bonus because of the currency.” At Sotheby’s International Realty, which deals with the ultra-wealthy, joint chairman Robin Paterson said the property market “should embrace this wholeheartedly”.
(5) Robin Paterson of Sotheby’s International Realty, which has a £22m Belgravia 7-bed home among the properties it is currently marketing, said: “The UK’s decision to leave the EU is an historic event and we should embrace this whole heartedly.
(6) Minority investors Third Avenue Management, Madison International Realty and EMS Capital have already indicated their willingness to sell.
(7) "The problem goes back to the war," says Sung Bonna, chief executive officer of Bonna Realty Group and vice-president of the Cambodian Real Estate Development Association.
(8) Since reliable, nationwide epidemiological data are not available in Italy, it is not known whether these data represent a local realty or whether they may be extrapolated to the entire country.