单词 | of duty |
释义 | > as lemmasof duty a. with possessive of the person to whom it is due. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > one's due rightOE dutyc1386 duec1450 expectativec1540 expectancy1624 expectance1652 c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 54 His maister had not half his duetee. c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 93 To reysen vp a rente That longeth to my lordes duetee. c1440 Generydes 2016 He and his ayeris claymeth it of dewte. 1476 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 496 Dyverse have lost mony er they cowde gete ther dywtes owte off th, Estaple. 1487 Act 3 Hen. VII c. 4 [5] Preamb. To defraude ther creditours of their duties. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xx. f. xxviij Take that which is thy duty. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xii. f. xcviij To geve them their dueti of meate, at due season. 1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 231/1 To him that worketh is the rewarde not geuen of fauour, but of duetye. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. xi. §755. 331 A stranger by his act without my assent shall not take away my duty. b. with possessive of the person by whom it is due. ΚΠ c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Legend St. Austin (Harl. 2255) l. 177 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 198 How may this be that thou art [so] froward To hooly chirche to pay thy dewtee. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman iii. i. sig. q.ij To paye theyr duety vnto nature, as theyr creditoure. 1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 198 Kirkis..dois also pay Thair dewtie alsweill as thay. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 291 a If A. be accountable to B. and B. releaseth him all his duties. < as lemmas |
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