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

Her maids around her moved, a duteous band!

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

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

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)

Nine and twenty yeomen tall Waited duteous on them all.

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