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
But the tale may not be vain, If haply it awake one duteous thought Of filial tenderness.
From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by Gilfillan, George
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)
In Rokeby, the filial attachment and duteous anxieties of Matilda form the leading feature of her character, and the chief source of her distresses.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
Nine and twenty yeomen tall Waited duteous on them all.
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