fealty
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
Formal loyalty and allegiance sworn by a subordinate to a lord or superior.
The junior ministers competed to demonstrate their fealty, each speech more fervent than the last.
Business noun
Loyalty and faithful allegiance owed to a leader or cause.
The founder confused fealty with competence and surrounded himself with loyalists who told him only what he wanted to hear.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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