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

Katharine maintained a duteous silence; the Lady Mary stood with her hands clasped before her.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox

The heroines in Rob Roy and The Black Dwarf are duteous and devoted daughters, the one of an unfortunate, the other of an unworthy parent.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

Then first was known     The rigorous Sonnet, to be fram'd alone     By duteous Bards, or by just Taste admir'd.—

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna

And, now that I think o' th' lass, comrade, I am not so sure that a scolding wife is not well paid for by a duteous daughter.

From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Rives, Amélie