fealty
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- n the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
- For nearly three years, the nuns had demanded freedom from the traditional rules of the cloister; the Vatican and the archdiocese of Los Angeles insisted on fealty to religious .
- He covered 4,399 miles in that final exhausting spasm, as if to demonstrate his fealty to the crusade through its crushing climax.
- In a country where family ties and political fealty have long been ensnarled, the plot is still thickening.