dutifulness

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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

The first time you hear Keith's mother do so is when she is feeding her chickens and addressing them in a parody of wifely dutifulness.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012

If anything, he would have seen in it only another dramatization of his r�le of dutifulness.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter