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Definition of Dueness
1. n. Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.
Definition of Dueness
1. Noun. Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dueness
1. the state of being owed [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dueness
Literary usage of Dueness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works by John Howe, Edmund Calamy (1835)
"The heinousness of the sin, and the too naturalness of the punishment taken
together, will evince the dueness of this event upon this sin. [1. ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1864)
"... and in his counsels were ordered in a due number, and weight, and measure by
him, be did observe in this of electing a dueness or comely proportion, ..."
3. The Ascent of Faith, Or, The Grounds of Certainty in Science and Religion by Alexander James Harrison (1894)
"I see that the recognition of these ultimates implies that dueness or oughtness
is absolute, in the sense that ignorance does not abolish obligation. ..."
4. The Validity of Rate Regulations, State and Federal by Robert Patterson Reeder (1914)
"There is nothing in the provision to show that those who adopted the Fifth
Amendment intended to create any other test of dueness than that which would have ..."