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du·te·ous (d

s, dy

adj.

Obedient or dutiful.

[From duty.]

dute·ous·ly adv.

duteous [ˈdjuːtɪəs]

adj

Formal or archaic dutiful; obedient

duteously adv

duteousness n

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Adj.

duteous - willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife";

dutiful

obedient - dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke

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dutiful obedient	he received him,'' answered the Earl, ``as if they had met after a hunting party; and, pointing to me and our men-at-arms, said, `Thou seest, brother, I have some angry men with me---thou wert best go to our mother, carry her my duteous affection, and abide with her until men's minds are pacified. Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context Casaubon: she would have lost some of her halo if she had been without that duteous preoccupation; and yet at the next moment the husband's sandy absorption of such nectar was too intolerable; and Will's longing to say damaging things about him was perhaps not the less tormenting because he felt the strongest reasons for restraining it. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context As when a Ship by skilful Stearsman wrought Nigh Rivers mouth or Foreland, where the Wind Veres oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her Saile; So varied hee, and of his tortuous Traine Curld many a wanton wreath in sight of EVE, To lure her Eye; shee busied heard the sound Of rusling Leaves, but minded not, as us'd To such disport before her through the Field, From every Beast, more duteous at her call, Then at CIRCEAN call the Herd disguis'd. Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context	Dutch metal Dutch mineral Dutch monetary unit Dutch New Guinea Dutch oil Dutch oven Dutch people Dutch pink Dutch Reformed Church Dutch rise Dutch rush Dutch tile Dutch treat Dutch uncle Dutch West Indies Dutch wife Dutch-elm beetle Dutch-processed cocoa Dutchman Dutchman's breeches Dutchman's laudanum Dutchman's pipe Dutchman's-breeches Dutchman's-pipe Dutchwoman duteous dutiable Dutied dutiful dutifully dutifulness Dutton duty duty assignment duty call duty officer duty period duty status - whereabouts unknown duty tour duty-bound duty-free duty-free goods duty-free shop duty-paid duumvir Duumviral duumvirate Duvalier duvet duvet day duvetyn	Dutchland Dutchman Dutchman Dutchman's breeches Dutchman's breeches Dutchman's laudanum Dutchman's log Dutchman's pipe Dutchman's pipe Dutchman's pipe Dutchman's pipes Dutchman's pipes Dutchman's-breeches Dutchman's-breeches Dutchman's-breeches Dutchman's-pipe Dutchman's-pipe Dutchman's-pipe Dutchmen Dutchmen Dutchophone Dutchwoman Dutchwoman Dutchwomen Dutchwomen Dutchy Fish Quota Company Dutchy of Schleswig Dutchy of Schleswig DUTE Duteil Guillon Verne duteous duteously duteously duteousness duteousness DUTF DUTFA Duth DUTI dutiable dutiable dutiable dutiable dutiable Dutied duties duties duties duties duties duties Duties and Liabilities Duties and Liabilities Duties and Liabilities Duties and Obligations Duties and Obligations Duties and Powers Duties and Powers Duties and Powers Duties and Powers Duties and Responsibilities of a Guardian

he received him,'' answered the Earl, ``as if they had met after a hunting party; and, pointing to me and our men-at-arms, said, `Thou seest, brother, I have some angry men with me---thou wert best go to our mother, carry her my duteous affection, and abide with her until men's minds are pacified.

Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context

Casaubon: she would have lost some of her halo if she had been without that duteous preoccupation; and yet at the next moment the husband's sandy absorption of such nectar was too intolerable; and Will's longing to say damaging things about him was perhaps not the less tormenting because he felt the strongest reasons for restraining it.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

As when a Ship by skilful Stearsman wrought Nigh Rivers mouth or Foreland, where the Wind Veres oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her Saile; So varied hee, and of his tortuous Traine Curld many a wanton wreath in sight of EVE, To lure her Eye; shee busied heard the sound Of rusling Leaves, but minded not, as us'd To such disport before her through the Field, From every Beast, more duteous at her call, Then at CIRCEAN call the Herd disguis'd.

Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context

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