fealty /(fē"al*ty̆)/

fe·al·ty

fealty

n.
  1. 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; loyalty. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.
  2. Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.
    He should maintain fealty to God.
    Makes wicked lightnings of her eyes, and saps The fealty of our friends.
    — tennyson.
    Swore fealty to the new government.