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Loyalty and Fealty

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0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00Donald Rumsfeld demands more than loyalty. He wants fealty.... 02br 02br 00Both words Loyalty and Fealty give me the same meaning when i looked up the dictionary, anything to do with idiom?

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  • 0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00Donald Rumsfeld demands more than loyalty.
  • He wants fealty....
  • 02br 02br 00Both words Loyalty and Fealty give me the same meaning when i looked up the dictionary, anything to do with idiom?
  • 02br 02br 01font 00fealty 02font 00This is a medieval term that refers to the feudal allegiance between 'vassal and lord'.
  • The vassal recognized the lord's superiority and acknowledged that he (the vassal) was inferior.
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Fealty is traditionally reserved as an expression for loyalty to a power figure, such as a king, duke or great warrior....and is suggestive of a more submissive loyalty than a friendship or business relationship would require.
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He may have made clear what he wanted, but the geezer never got it....

Loyalty = mutual trust, mutual respect for one's beliefs, accomplishments.

Fealty = Serfdom, slavery, blind obedience from fear of non-conformist consequences.

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