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duteous, a.|ˈdjuːtɪəs|
Also 6–7 dutious.
[f. duty + -ous; cf. the earlier beauteous.]
Characterized by the performance of duty to a superior; dutiful, submissive, obedient, subservient. (Of persons and their actions, etc.)
1593Shakes. Lucr. 1360 And yet the duteous vassal scarce is gone. 1594― Rich. III, ii. i. 63, I intreate true peace of you, Which I will purchase with my dutious seruice. 1605― Lear iv. vi. 258 Duteous to the vices of thy Mistris. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. (1847) 190/2 But the law can compel the offending party to be more duteous. 1698Dryden On a Lady who died at Bath 35 A daughter duteous, and a sister kind. 1742Young Nt. Th. i. 417 And only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. 1805Scott Last Minstr. i. iii, Nine-and-twenty yeomen tall Waited, duteous, on them all.
Hence ˈduteously adv.; ˈduteousness.
1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iii. v. (R.), Whatever dutiousness or observance comes afterwards. 1814Wordsworth Excurs. vii. 667 Once every day he duteously repaired To rock the cradle of the slumbering babe. 1822Scott Nigel xxvii, Kneeling duteously down. 1839J. Sterling Ess. etc. (1848) I. 311 (Carlyle) Without faith, affectionateness, duteousness, truth. |