fealty

But a strict fealty to mimicking that relationship interrupts the conversation between modern and ancient sculpture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Again, the public should have heard more of this outrageous display of fealty, but it got very little coverage.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 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 canine rises up on its hind legs in an almost prayer-like pose that fuses desire and fealty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

He was made sorcerer then, and the Archmage Gensher accepted at that time his fealty.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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

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

And also, the fees, fealties, and seruices which belonged to him in the countie of Amund, and in the vallie called Vale Dosta; and in like maner, the towne of Castellone.

From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second by Holinshed, Raphael