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
Nine and twenty yeomen tall Waited duteous on them all.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
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
Wallmoden narrated this with the same cold contempt which he had shown to Hartmut, and the same horror and aversion were pictured in the face of his sister--that strictly duteous and moral lady.
From The Sign of Flame by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
She burst out into a fit of laughter at my duteous principles.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
