单词 | dutifulness |
释义 | dutifulnessn. The quality of being dutiful; the habit of due performance of obligations to superiors. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [noun] > dutifulness piety1534 dutifulness1576 duteousness1660 1576 A. Fleming tr. P. Manutius in Panoplie Epist. 329 The auncient duetifulnesse, which I owe to your reverence. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xix. 714/1 We doe it rather out of a sense of our dutifulnes. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxvi. 238 A dutifulness so exemplary. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. ii. 277 His dutifulness..to his Parents. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1576 |
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