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

All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage: when young, indeed, In full content we, sometimes, nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

A duteous bird the while, high perched above, Utters the tremulous notes of tender love.

From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher

Fearless, unfear'd, her husband caress'd his duteous bride.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

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

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