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 Edward Young
First Malfred Queen saluted they, In manner as became them duteous; And then they greeted Valborg may, Of all the maiden band most beauteous.
From Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad by George Henry Borrow
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 Luís de Camões
Wallmoden narrated this with the same cold contempt which he had shown to Hartmut, and the same horror and aversion were pictured in the face of his sister--that strictly duteous and moral lady.
From The Sign of Flame by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
