释义 |
dutifulness|ˈdjuːtɪfʊlnɪs| [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being dutiful; the habit of due performance of obligations to superiors.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 329 The auncient duetifulnesse, which I owe to your reverence. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xix. (1632) 932 We doe it rather out of a sense of our dutifulnesse. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xxxvi. 264 A dutifulness so exemplary. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men I. ii. 277 His dutifulness..to his Parents. |