dueness

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So also unnecessary taxation oppresses them, through destruction of capital, but the destiny of the poor depends primarily always on this one question of dueness of wages.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

When the e is preceded by a vowel, it is sometimes omitted; as in duly, truly, awful, argument; but much more frequently retained; as in dueness, trueness, blueness, bluely, rueful, dueful, shoeless, eyeless.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold