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

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 Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

Wherever Destiny, a kinder friend Than he who gave me birth, may point the way, Thither resolv'd our duteous steps shall bend, Nor know presaging fear, nor weak delay.

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna

Roman piety was the duteous care of one's relatives.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

Nine and twenty yeomen tall Waited duteous on them all.

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