Thesaurus / devoir
FEEDBACK- direction
- duty
- law
- mandate
- order
- regulation
- request
- responsibility
- rule
- word
- act
- adjuration
- ban
- behest
- bidding
- call
- canon
- caveat
- charge
- citation
- commandment
- decree
- demand
- dictate
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- injunction
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- prohibition
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- subpoena
- summons
- ultimatum
- warrant
- will
- writ
- engagement
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- need
- pledge
- promise
- responsibility
- charge
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- duty
- liability
- must
- undertaking
- vow
- word
- ought
- burden
- business
- charge
- chore
- commission
- commitment
- contract
- function
- job
- need
- obligation
- office
- role
- service
- task
- work
- calling
- committal
- dues
- engagement
- hook
- load
- millstone
- mission
- must
- occupation
- onus
- pains
- part
- province
- station
- string
- trouble
- trust
- undertaking
- weight
- minding the store
- ought
- taking care of business
- accountability
- burden
- charge
- liability
- loyalty
- allegiance
- amenability
- answerability
- conscience
- deference
- faithfulness
- honesty
- integrity
- obedience
- pledge
- respect
- reverence
- accountableness
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- good faith
- action
- assignment
- business
- care
- duty
- effort
- office
- operation
- project
- responsibility
- role
- stint
- task
- thing
- work
- act
- affair
- burden
- charge
- chore
- commission
- concern
- contribution
- deed
- enterprise
- errand
- function
- matter
- mission
- obligation
- province
- pursuit
- undertaking
- venture
- taskwork
- tour of duty
- precondition
- prerequisite
- requisite
- charge
- commitment
- committal
- condition
- duty
- fundamental
- imperative
- must-have
- necessary
- need
- obligation
- requirement
- right
- ought
- sine qua non
- commitment
- demand
- obligation
- right
- urgency
- use
- wish
- charge
- committal
- compulsion
- desideratum
- duty
- essential
- exigency
- extremity
- longing
- must
- occasion
- requisite
- weakness
- ought
- the urge
- accountability
- agreement
- bond
- burden
- commitment
- constraint
- contract
- debt
- duty
- liability
- necessity
- need
- promise
- requirement
- right
- trust
- understanding
- business
- call
- cause
- charge
- chit
- committal
- compulsion
- conscience
- debit
- dues
- engagement
- IOU
- must
- occasion
- onus
- part
- place
- restraint
- accountableness
- due bill
- ought
- answer
- disorganization
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- allowance
- permission
- request
- contradiction
- countermand
- opposition
- recall
- reversal
- revocation
- subordination
- entertainment
- fun
- pastime
- unemployment
- advantage
- aid
- benefit
- blessing
- help
- hobby
- surrender
- disregard
- faithlessness
- inconstancy
- irresponsibility
- treachery
- disdain
- dishonesty
- dishonor
- disloyalty
- disobedience
- disregard
- disrespect
- treachery
- faithlessness
- inconstancy
- irresponsibility
- disregard
- entertainment
- fun
- idleness
- inaction
- inactivity
- irresponsibility
- pastime
- retreat
- unemployment
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How to use devoir in a sentence
L le pere Birat dit la Messe, & fit ce qu'il peut pour ranger vn chacun ce qui estoit du devoir.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSAdieu, mon ami; je vous souhaiterais un devoir plus agreable a remplir.
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANSJAMES FENIMORE COOPERI hope you do not deem the devoir of a country gentleman incompatible with the duties of a statesman?
THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE, VOL. I (OF II)CHARLES JAMES LEVERYou will have leisure, therefore, if it please you to take service under me, in which to learn your devoir.
THE WHITE COMPANYARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is easy, lady, for a man to ride forth in the light of day, and do his devoir when all men have eyes for him.
THE WHITE COMPANYARTHUR CONAN DOYLEJe suis persuad que vous saisirez avec plaisir cette occasion pour remplir ce que l'honneur et le devoir vous prescrivent.
MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL LORD DE SAUMAREZ. VOL IISIR JOHN ROSSRevenez à Stuttgard et faites votre devoir de mari, de père, de fils et de Prince Chrétien.
A GERMAN POMPADOURMARIE HAYIl n'avait nul droit de contrler les ordres qu'il tait charg d'excuter; et son devoir tait d'obir.
ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN, VOLUME I (OF 2)SIR WALTER SCOTTHis personal organ, "Le Devoir," is daily expounding the doctrines of that School.
ENGLAND, CANADA AND THE GREAT WARLOUIS-GEORGES DESJARDINSNow, the ring had on it but the letter "A," and the motto inscribed around "Loyal devoir."
THE FALL OF THE GRAND SARRASINWILLIAM J. FERRARWORDS RELATED TO DEVOIR
- act
- adjuration
- ban
- behest
- bidding
- call
- canon
- caveat
- charge
- citation
- commandment
- decree
- demand
- devoir
- dictate
- dictation
- dictum
- direction
- duty
- edict
- enactment
- exaction
- fiat
- imperative
- imposition
- injunction
- interdiction
- law
- mandate
- notification
- obligation
- order
- ordinance
- precept
- prescript
- proclamation
- prohibition
- proscription
- regulation
- request
- requirement
- requisition
- responsibility
- rule
- subpoena
- summons
- ultimatum
- warrant
- will
- word
- writ
- abilities
- absolutism
- aplomb
- authorities
- authorizations
- charges
- coercions
- compulsions
- constraints
- controls
- despotisms
- domination
- dominions
- expertise
- expertisms
- expertness
- governments
- grasps
- grips
- holds
- jurisdictions
- know-hows
- leaderships
- managements
- mights
- prerogatives
- primacy
- restraints
- rights
- royalties
- skills
- sovereignty
- strings
- supervision
- supremacy
- sway
- tyrannies
- upper hands
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