dutifulness
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Cox masterfully captures Churchill’s contradictory nature, obsessive dutifulness to queen and country, and a volatility born out of fear, desperation and impending loss.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2017
She follows him around with a desperate dutifulness, and he does his best to sideline her during their meeting with Dennis.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 2015
In the process they imbued it with their most self-regarding qualities—the playfulness and dutifulness of the panto hero, the fairness that is his reward—and their mores.
From Economist • Dec. 17, 2014
The first time you hear Keith's mother do so is when she is feeding her chickens and addressing them in a parody of wifely dutifulness.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012
You will readily see that the plan of these lectures forbids any direct study of the Pauline doctrine regarding the relation of faith to works, of divine grace to human dutifulness.
From The Sources Of Religious Insight by Royce, Josiah
