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Definition of Dutiful

1. Adjective. Willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect. "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife"

Definition of Dutiful

1. a. Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.

Definition of Dutiful

1. Adjective. Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint. ¹

2. Adjective. Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dutiful

1. obedient [adj] - See also: obedient

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dutiful

Literary usage of Dutiful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Quasi Contracts by Frederic Campbell Woodward (1913)
"(I) dutiful intervention. — Broadly speaking, the ways in which one may ... The performance of another's legal obligation may be regarded as dutiful, ..."

2. Confessions of an English Opium-eater ; And, Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey (1851)
"infant feelings were moulded by the gentlest of sisters, not by horrid pugilistic brothers; finally, that 1 and they were dutiful children of a pure, holy, ..."

3. New Chapters of Bismarck's Autobiography by Otto Bismarck (1920)
"To my most dutiful thanks for this souvenir of the past I join my respectful ... In deepest respect I remain " Your Majesty's ' Most dutiful servant, " v. ..."

4. Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect by Hezekiah Niles (1822)
"We are, gentlemen, your dutiful, be. The Freeholders of Botetourt. ... Sm:—We, his majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the members of the assembly of ..."

5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"I am, may it please your majesty, with the most profound respect, your majesty's most dutiful and devoted subject and servant. ..."

6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Among the many vices of this younger Verus, he possessed one virtue ; a dutiful reverence for his wiser colleague, to whom he willingly abandoned the ruder ..."

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