duteous
/ˈdjuːtɪəs
/adjective archaic
Dutiful: a duteous vassal...
- She is ever duteous when addressing them, but betrays her true character to the audience.
- Everything was changing its aspect: her husband's conduct, her own duteous feeling towards him, every struggle between them - and yet more, her whole relation to him.
- It is true that the majority physicians are duteous to their patients.
Derivatives
duteously
- Patches of skin and blood were found on various living room walls and the cops had duteously sent several wallpaper swatches to the crime lab, skin and blood intact.
- This approach, in which Mainland China makes the judgment and Hong Kong duteously follows, highlights the most dangerous aspect of the proposed law.
- He emptied the compartments duteously, packed the unsold goods in large canvas sacks, tidying them away behind the two bottom doors of his cart.
duteousness
- To that extent, the duteousness and passivity implied by the Protestant work ethic are truly dead.
- Surveillance is, plenty simply, the reaction of vigil people, objects or processes for duteousness to exact expected norms.
- Is love the ultimate essential factor in a marriage, or is it the duteousness and fidelity?
Origin
Late 16th century: from duty, on the pattern of words such as bounteous.