duteous
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Exception 3.—Final y is sometimes changed into e: as, duty + ous = duteous; beauty + ous = beauteous.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
In yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave; The year’s best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its poet’s sylvan grave.
From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by William Collins
And Psyche, since had come no priestess there To trim the temple, in her pious care Forgat herself, and lent her duteous aid.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
Roman piety was the duteous care of one's relatives.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
Then first was known The rigorous Sonnet, to be fram'd alone By duteous Bards, or by just Taste admir'd.—
From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Anna Seward
