Difference between revisions of "Fidelity"

<p> FIDEL'ITY, n. L. fidelitas, from fides, faith, fido, to trust. See Faith. </p> 1. [[Faithfulness]] careful and exact observance of duty, or performance of obligations. We expect fidelity in a public minister, in an agent or trustee, in a domestic servant, in a friend. <p> The best security for the fidelity of men, is to make interest coincide with duty. </p> 2. [[Firm]] adherence to a person or party with which one is united, or to which one is bound loyalty as the fidelity of subjects to their king or government the fidelity of a tenant or liege to his lord. 3. Observance of the marriage covenant as the fidelity of a husband or wife. 4. [[Honesty]] veracity adherence to truth as the fidelity of a witness.