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
Thus you may earn your bread: this is your duteous work.
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford Madox Ford
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, now that I think o' th' lass, comrade, I am not so sure that a scolding wife is not well paid for by a duteous daughter.
From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives
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
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