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

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

He spoke: high Jove assenting bow'd the head, And floating clouds of nectar'd fragrance shed: Then, lowly bending to th' Eternal Sire, Each in his duteous rank, the gods retire.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

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)

A duteous bird the while, high perched above, Utters the tremulous notes of tender love.

From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher