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
A duteous bird the while, high perched above, Utters the tremulous notes of tender love.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
Nay, then 't was from a duteous wish To serve the cause thou wast in honour bound— André.
From André by Montrose Jonas Moses
Mild, passive, duteous, and innocent: I may lead my life just as I please; and she, dear creature! will have no idea but that I am a very good husband!
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
Her maids around her moved, a duteous band!
From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by William Collins
