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

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

First Malfred Queen saluted they,    In manner as became them duteous; And then they greeted Valborg may,    Of all the maiden band most beauteous.

From Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad by Borrow, George Henry

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 Collins, William

The heroines in Rob Roy and The Black Dwarf are duteous and devoted daughters, the one of an unfortunate, the other of an unworthy parent.

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