lealty

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman lealté, one of the variants of Old French loiauté.

Noun

lealty (countable and uncountable, plural lealties)

1. (archaic, Scotland) loyalty, fealty
   • 1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 5

     […] 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

Anagrams

• Talley, lately, yell at

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Scots

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman lealté, one of the variants of Old French loiauté.

Noun

lealty (plural lealties)

1. loyalty