fidelity
/fɪˈdɛləti/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Often followed by to or towards: faithfulness or loyalty towards a person, a group, one's civic or moral duties, etc.; allegiance; (countable) an instance of this.
Uncountable
noun
Often followed by to or towards: faithfulness or loyalty towards a person, a group, one's civic or moral duties, etc.; allegiance; (countable) an instance of this.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Often followed by to or towards: faithfulness or loyalty towards a person, a group, one's civic or moral duties, etc.; allegiance; (countable) an instance of this.
Archaic; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Accuracy, or exact correspondence, to some given fact or quality; exactness.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Chiefly in high fidelity, low fidelity, etc.: the degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input such as an image or sound.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "the fidelity of the civil servants to their country"
- "[T]hey ſerve thoſe that hire them, both vvith much courage and great Fidelity; but vvill not engage to ſerve for any determin'd time, and agree upon ſuch Terms, that the next day they may go over to the Enemies of thoſe vvhom they ſerve, if they offer them a greater pay: […]"
- "In the ordinary intercourse of life, fidelity to engagements is a virtue: why? because in the ordinary intercourse of life, among the engagements taken there is not one in a thousand, the execution of which is not beneficial to the community upon the whole."
- "In vvhat other houſe, public or private, can equal ſecurity be found for the fidelity of the married, for the chaſtity of the ſingle, and for the extinction of drunkenneſs, that murderous infatuation, in compariſon of vvhich every thing elſe that goes by the name of vice is virtue?"
- "Near-synonym: faith"
- "Wake up from thy rest, thine abode is in Manu. / Let me be entrusted to the fidelity which is yielded to Osiris. / Come, O Râ, Tmu [Atum], be thou adored. Do thy will daily. Grant success in presence of the cycle of the mighty gods."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰeydʰ-, fidelite, fidélité, fidēlitās, *bʰidʰ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɪˈdɛləti/
- British English: /fɪˈdɛlɪti/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.