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

Nine and twenty yeomen tall Waited duteous on them all.

From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various

"Mustn't rush things," he'd told himself, as if those three days had been three years' duteous service of a knight of old.

From The Disturbing Charm by Ruck, Berta

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)

Her maids around her moved, a duteous band!

From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by Collins, William