fealty

It did not explicitly invoke the unitary executive theory, but its fealty to the doctrine was clear.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

But Europeans are increasingly concerned that displays of praise and fealty aren’t working.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

Is it Gloria Swanson’s Norma Desmond, the obscenely wealthy-but-faded star obsessed with comebacks and raining contempt on anyone who doesn’t approach her with abject fealty and admiration?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

Notably, when pressed on fealty to the current state of Israel, he refused to accept anything short of a state “with equal rights for all.”

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025

The upshot was this: it was true that the Squire Semelan controlled this little town and all the land around it, but Semelan owed fealty directly to Greyfallow.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

A Scorpio’s deepest fealties can only lie with beings they perceive as powerful as they are — or more so, complementing that inescapable desire to subjugate that which makes them feel powerless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024

The doors were shut, with the infant inside; the lights flew up; glasses clinked, merry healths were pledged, new fealties sworn by look alone.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

Feudalism itself, with its curious net-work of fealties and obligations running through the fabric of society in every direction, was by no means purely disintegrative in its tendencies.

From American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History by Fiske, John

If Lydia was to be his—though already she seemed supremely his in all the shy fealties of the moment—not a petal of the flower of love should be lost to her.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice

My passions are many, my loves more, my thoughts loyalty, and my fancy faith: all devoted in humble devoir to the service of Phœbe; and shall I reap no reward for such fealties?

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George