dutifulness

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As one researcher puts it: “A high score on conscientious implies strong industriousness, impulse control, dutifulness, sense of organisation, adherence to norms and rules and a preference for order and dependability.”

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2019

Cox masterfully captures Churchill’s contradictory nature, obsessive dutifulness to queen and country, and a volatility born out of fear, desperation and impending loss.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2017

She follows him around with a desperate dutifulness, and he does his best to sideline her during their meeting with Dennis.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2015

In the process they imbued it with their most self-regarding qualities—the playfulness and dutifulness of the panto hero, the fairness that is his reward—and their mores.

From Economist • Dec. 17, 2014

She was a child of great dutifulness to her parents, and of a very sweet, humble nature; and not only the truth, but the power and eminence of religion did shine in her.

From Stories of Boys and Girls Who Loved the Saviour A Token for Children by Janeway, James