- 1效忠（對君王或領主立誓的那種，不是一般友誼上的「忠誠」）
Fealty is the loyalty a person owed a king, queen, or lord, especially in the Middle Ages. You swore fealty: you stood there and promised to be faithful and to serve. It is not the everyday word for liking someone or standing by a friend — that is loyalty or faithfulness. Fealty has a vow in it, and a ladder: someone above, someone below. Today you meet it in history books, in fantasy stories, and sometimes, with a half-smile, for fierce loyalty to a boss or a team (“he swore fealty to the new manager”). It sounds old, formal, and a bit ceremonial. People do not use it for “I am loyal to my .”
組成From Middle English feaute, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin fidēlitās (“faithfulness”; in Medieval Latin also “homage, fealty”), from fidēlis (“faithful”) + -tās. The modern shape was pulled toward the Latin; without that learned push you might have had something like *feauty. Same Latin word as fidelity — a doublet. Also equal to obsolete feal + -ty.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fealtynoun/ˈfiː.əlti/
- 1
Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.
- I doubt whether the most devoted fidelity would bear strict examination as to the short reposes even the most entire fealty permits itself.
- Ordo Malleus''' Inquisitor: In fealty to the God-Emperor, our Undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare exterminatus upon the Imperial world of Typhon Primaris.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。