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
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)
Katharine maintained a duteous silence; the Lady Mary stood with her hands clasped before her.
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox
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
Her maids around her moved, a duteous band!
From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by Collins, William
