lealty
English edit
Etymology edit
From Anglo-Norman lealté, one of the variants of Old French loiauté.
Noun edit
lealty (countable and uncountable, plural lealties)
- (archaic, Scotland) loyalty, fealty
- 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume V, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
- […] and kissed King Hasan's hands and did homage to him, and swore lealty to him.
- 1886, Francis de Sales, The mission of the Church, part 12, translated by Rev. Henry Benedict Mackey
- […] to lead away Christian lealty into rebellion and revolt
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Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Anglo-Norman lealté, one of the variants of Old French loiauté.
Noun edit
lealty (plural lealties)