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

Mild, passive, duteous, and innocent: I may lead my life just as I please; and she, dear creature! will have no idea but that I am a very good husband!

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana

This is the mistresse flame; and duteous he Her happy fire-works here, comes down to see.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Thus you may earn your bread: this is your duteous work.

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

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