fidelity

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Thou wilt find that my fidelity was my ruin.

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  1. noun Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances.
  2. noun Exact correspondence with fact or with a given quality, condition, or event; accuracy.
  3. noun The degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces the sound or image of its input signal.

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  1. Middle English fidelite, from Old French, from Latin fidēlitās, from fidēlis, faithful, from fidēs, faith; see bheidh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French fidélité = Provencal fedeltat = Spanish fidelidad = Portuguese fidelidade = Italian fedeltà, fedelità, fidelità, from Latin fidelita (t-)s, faithfulness, firm adherence, trustiness, from fidelis, faithful: see fidele. Cf. fealty, a doublet of fidelity.
 

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