单词 | dueness |
释义 | duenessn. The quality or state of being due (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > [noun] debtc1330 officec1330 obliginga1382 dutyc1385 bondc1449 due?a1475 bounden duty1530 dueness1576 behoof1591 obligement1611 obligationa1616 ought1678 right1752 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] foȝa1250 mensea1525 properness1531 justice?1551 decentness1561 dueness1576 conveniency1583 fitness1597 propriety1612 fittingness1653 convenience1677 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > fittingness or propriety righteousnessOE duea1425 properness1531 decency1567 dueness1576 decorum1586 fitness1597 orthotes1605 propriety1612 befittingnessa1645 beseemlinessa1645 fittingness1653 becomeness1656 beseemingness1656 becomingness1657 condecency1662 competibleness1667 decence1678 1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 160 For the duenesse of my desire I appeale to your curtesy for iudgment. 1595 L. Lewkenor Estate Eng. Fugitives sig. F2v They [sc. payments] are neuer granted but vpon pretence of good seruice don, or some duenes of desert. 1623 W. Sclater Quæstion of Tythes 153 There is..a Parochicall or particular duenesse of Tithes. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 175 The promise determineth of the dueness of the reward. The threatening determineth of the dueness of the Penalty. 1733 C. Mayne Ess. conc. Rational Notions v. 47 A moral dueness, called duty, which signifies the obligation of doing or performing what reason requires from one rational being towards another. 1784 W. Ashdowne Key Script. Char. Jesus Christ 58 Can any imagine that the actual existence of his creature nature could impair the dueness of this privilege? 1845 D. Dewar Church Pref. p. vi The inexpressible pleasure of this consociation in worship, perpetually tendered with so absolute a plenitude of satisfaction in the dueness of it! 1873 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. II. i. vi. 424 The Soul flashes in, and flashes out of us, with the dueness of sun-rising and sun-setting! 1916 E. A. Sonnenschein New Eng. Gram. iii. 78 The root-meaning of the verb ‘shall’ is dueness or obligation. 1961 Calif. Law Rev. 49 215 Recently we were told that the dueness of government procedure is not tested by ‘doctrinaire conception’. 1996 Dante Stud. No. 114. 147 An actual document..by which Satan could claim his debt and prove its dueness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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