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feal

American  
[feel] / fil /

adjective

  1. Archaic. faithful; loyal.


feal British  
/ fiːl /

adjective

  1. an archaic word for faithful

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of feal

1550–60; < Old French feal ; see fealty

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And it was the prince's duty to help feal men....

From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

Sometimes I feal like gittin' lonesum but I jist keep puttin' it of.

From Sowing Seeds in Danny by Nellie L. McClung

He was thus answered by another parish oracle--perhaps the schoolmaster, perhaps a weaver:--"Fat better culd the man dee nir he's dune?--he bud tae big's dyke wi' the feal at fit o't."

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Beany and Pewt coodent have the fellers in Beanys yard. i am still wundering how Beany lerned how to do them xamples. it aint like him to know now. i still feal prety blew.

From Brite and Fair by Worth Brehm

They was eleven of us children and all when we came through and I feal interrested about my Brothers.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

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