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dueness|ˈdjuːnɪs|
[f. due a. + -ness.]
The quality of being due: in various senses of the adj.
1621W. Sclater Tythes (1623) 153 There is..a Parochicall or particular duenesse of Tithes. 1646Ord. Lords & Com. Susp. Tryers 9 The duenesse of their election. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 175 The promise determineth of the dueness of the reward. The threatening determineth of the dueness of the Penalty. a1679T. Goodwin Exp. 1 Eph. Wks. I. ii. 199 When God had dissolved that dueness, that debt, (as I may call it,) that obligation. 1862Ruskin Unto this Last 98 The..dueness of wages. a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. viii. (1870) 142 The rational recognition of duty or dueness. |