Lealty

Origin

Anglo-Norman lealté, one of the variants of Old French loiauté.

Full definition of lealty

Noun

1. (archaic, Scotland) loyalty, fealty
• 1885, — Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 5...and kissed King Hasan's hands and did homage to him, and swore lealty to him.
• 1886, — Francis de Sales, The mission of the Church, part 12, transl. by Rev. Henry Benedict Mackey...to lead away Christian lealty into rebellion and revolt

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