Fealty vs. Lealty — What's the Difference?

An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas (faithfulness), is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another.

Loyalty, fealty

A feudal tenant's or vassal's sworn loyalty to a lord

The fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord.

The oath of such fidelity.

Allegiance.

Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.

The oath by which this obligation was assumed.

Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.

Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.

The loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)