duteous

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Exception 3.—Final y is sometimes changed into e: as, duty + ous = duteous; beauty + ous = beauteous.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

The watchman of the seas leaves not the coast, duteous in his lonely cares; while Beowulf, with his companions, marches onwards.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

There forests, lawns, and haunts of beasts abound, There youth is temperate, and laborious found; There altars and the righteous gods are fear'd, And aged sires by duteous sons rever'd.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage: when young, indeed, In full content we, sometimes, nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

Roman piety was the duteous care of one's relatives.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe