duteousness

He wrote, for example, with a voluminous duteousness, to his parents.

It was by her brave duteousness that his mutilated body was buried in the chancel of Chelsea Church.

These counteractives are the profound instincts of parental fondness and filial reverence, the first of which tends to make the parents enter into the spiritual states of their children, and to look at things from their point of view; and the second, to make the children, with docile duteousness, adopt as their own the conclusions of their parents.

The reader finds that Jeanie Deans somehow grows steadily in his belief and affection: quietly but surely, a sense of her comeliness, her truthful love, her quaint touch of Scotch canniness, her daughterly duteousness and her stanch principle intensifies until it is a pang to bid her farewell, and the mind harks back to her with a fond recollection.

Poor laddie, what would be outrecuidance in another is but duteousness in him.