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单词 to do, make, receive, swear, etc fealty
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to do, make, receive, swear, etc. fealty
2. The recognition of this obligation (see quot. 1629). Also plural. Frequent in phrases to do, make, receive, swear, etc. fealty.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [noun] > to (feudal) lord
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feudality1701
c1300 K. Alis. 2911 Alle heo duden him feuté.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 3 Ine toke his feaute of alle þat lond helde.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 95 To whom [Swane] þe men..þat dwelled at þe norþ side of Watlyng strete gefen ostage and sworen feutee.
c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 3762 Sho sal hald hir land of the, And to the tharfor mak fewte.
1475 Bk. Noblesse 38 Prince Edwarde..received theire homages and feutees..in the name of King Edwarde .iijd.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxvi. 571 They of the londe receyved him to be their lorde, & made to him fewt & homage.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 12 These tenauntes maye holde their landes by..fealtie.
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 20 §5 Making..othe & feautie only to the kinges maiestie.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xvii. §8. 490 Salomon..receiued fealtie of all the Princes and people of the land.
1629 Vse of Law 38 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light Fealtie, is to take an oath vpon a booke, that hee will be a faithfull Tenant to the King.
1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) v. 149 The Bishops were also obliged to swear fealty to the Prince.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vii. ii. 139 Where there was no fealty there could be no treason.
1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) xi. 146 The vassal swore to his baron fealty absolutely.
attributive.1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 359 Henceforward, though Lotharius Imperator might appear in Charter or Diploma and the fealty-form be preserved to him, his sovereignty in Italy was gone.
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