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

The heroines in Rob Roy and The Black Dwarf are duteous and devoted daughters, the one of an unfortunate, the other of an unworthy parent.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

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 Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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

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