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 George Gilfillan
Nay, then 't was from a duteous wish To serve the cause thou wast in honour bound— André.
From André by Montrose Jonas Moses
Roman piety was the duteous care of one's relatives.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
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 T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
