ההגדרה המילונית של המילה "נאמנות" היא ביטוי רשמי של נאמנות או נאמנות, במיוחד לאדון או למלך פיאודלי. בהקשרים היסטוריים, היא התייחסה לשבועת הנאמנות שאוסל ייקח לאדונו, תוך הכרה במעמדו ככפוף ומבטיח להיות נאמן וצייתן. בשימוש מודרני, ניתן להשתמש בו גם בצורה רחבה יותר כדי לתאר נאמנות או מחויבות עמוקה ובלתי מעורערת לאדם, לארגון או למטרה.
1. You will simply die from sickness if you do not swear fealty.
2. Like you and I and all these others, they are children of God and thus deserve our love and fealty.
3. The code of chivalry, to which every knight must swear fealty, requires us keep faith in God and each other, to fight for all, not merely a few, to avoid unfairness at all costs, and to always speak the truth.
4. All that she had seen rendered Jenny speechless, but what astonished her most of all was the obvious love and fealty these children felt toward Arthur.
5. of other secret matters which, to preserve the fealty I owe to my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, I shall pass over unnoticed and in silence!
6. Aric will be here within the week, and you will then swear your fealty to him.
7. If you do not swear fealty to him, you will be executed immediately.
8. I expect the loyalty and the fealty of these people.
9. After I am done, I will expect them all to swear their fealty to me.
10. The chance to have larger farms though, and the time to work them, was a great enticement and everyone decided that it was in their own best interest to swear their fealty to Calder.
GOT Season 01 Episode 10
pledge fealty to King Renly