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

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 Rives, Amélie

She burst out into a fit of laughter at my duteous principles.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana

In Rokeby, the filial attachment and duteous anxieties of Matilda form the leading feature of her character, and the chief source of her distresses.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)