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Meanings of duteous in English

Willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect;

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Usage of duteous in English
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Who has sinned more against those three duteous reticences than Jean Jacques?
Impressions of Theophrastus Such
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He pressed the buzzer imperiously, and Betty responded with duteous haste.
The Sturdy Oak / A composite Novel of American Politics by fourt...
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Never master had a page so kind, so duteous, diligent, true.
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
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She was not a loving woman, not a duteous young wife, nor a reasoning creature.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
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Think, thou duteous son, of my old father, Daunus.
National Epics
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The best of blessings on her duteous sons.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17,...
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I say, recounts even to the gods his duteous conduct and his pious care of their altars.
L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits
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My uncle and I, his rightful and duteous heir, offer the King devoted homage and unswerving fealty.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 2
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The duteous hero, unconscious of crime, happily perceived not, in his beloved father, any symptoms of suspicion.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, V...
10
And to be duteous to her that bare me: and he hath not made me proud, depraved.
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
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Nay, my queen, you were too duteous to hearken to me when I was rich and prosperous.
Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
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It was his duteous service, his worship, his troth-plighting, all that he had ever known of Love.
Widdershins
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She answered him no farther or otherwise than was simply duteous, but went at once to see Scudamore.
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3
14
Never master had a page so kind, so duteous, so diligent on all occasions, so true, so nurselike.
Tales from Shakespeare
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What I did was in oblivion of self; was from a duteous regard to his genuine and lasting happiness.
Jane Talbot
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And mercifulness from Ourself, and purity; and pious was he, and duteous to his parents; and not proud, rebellious.
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
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