fealty
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This fealty to a handful of characters would continue throughout his career, but the result is that the whole of his output feels dull in comparison to his individual works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
All of them were there to demonstrate their fealty to the man who would be king.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
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
For decades these animals – lions, tigers, pumas, cheetahs and jaguars – have been a sign of power, status and even political fealty in the country.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
His brother had sworn a holy oath of fealty; this half promise was the very best he could offer him as an anointed warrior.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
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
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
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