单词 | duteous |
释义 | duteousadj. Characterized by the performance of duty to a superior; dutiful, submissive, obedient, subservient. (Of persons and their actions, etc.) ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [adjective] lawfulc1430 dutiful1552 duteous1594 pious1614 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. K1v And yet the dutious vassall scarce is gone. View more context for this quotation 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. i. 64 I intreate true peace of you, Which I will purchase with my dutious seruice. View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 244 Dutious to the vices of thy mistres. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 32 But the Law can compell the offending party to bee more duteous. 1698 J. Dryden On a Lady who died at Bath 35 A daughter duteous, and a sister kind. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 19 And only wish, As duteous sons, our Fathers were more Wise. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. iii. 10 Nine-and-twenty yeomen tall, Waited, duteous, on them all. Derivatives ˈduteously adv. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [adverb] debtfullyc1425 lawfullyc1500 obsequiously?1536 dutifully1552 observantly1647 piously1741 duteously1814 responsibly1825 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 340 Once every day he duteously repaired To rock the cradle of the slumbering Babe. View more context for this quotation 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. iii. 85 Kneeling duteously down. ˈduteousness n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [noun] > dutifulness piety1534 dutifulness1576 duteousness1660 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iii. v. (R.) Whatever dutiousness or observance comes afterwards. 1839 J. Sterling Ess. & Tales (1848) I. 311 Without faith, affectionateness, duteousness, truth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1594 |
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