Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fidelity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fidelity \Fi*del"i*ty\, n. [L. fidelitas: cf. F. fid['e]lit['e].
See {Fealty}.]
Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact
observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially:
(a) Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound;
loyalty.
Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger.
--Macaulay.
The best security for the fidelity of men is to
make interest coincide with duty. --A. Hamilton.
(b) Adherence to the marriage contract.
(c) Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.
The principal thing required in a witness is
fidelity. --Hooker.
Syn: Faithfulness; honesty; integrity; faith; loyalty;
fealty.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fidelity
n 1: accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the
sound or image of its input signal
2: the quality of being faithful [syn: {faithfulness}] [ant: {infidelity},
{infidelity}]
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