Definition of Dutifulness

1. Noun. Piety by virtue of devotion to duty.

Generic synonyms: Piety, Piousness
Derivative terms: Dutiful

Definition of Dutifulness

1. Noun. The state of being dutiful ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dutifulness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dutifulness

dutchman
dutchmen
dutchy
duteous
duteously
duteousness
duteplase
dutiable
dutie
dutied
duties
dutiful
dutifull
dutifuller
dutifully
dutifulness (current term)
dutifulnesses
dutiless
duts
duttonite
duty
duty-bound
duty-bound(p)
duty-free
duty cycle
duty factor
duty of care
duty period
duty to warn

Literary usage of Dutifulness

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

1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"... to track the road of honest, self- renouncing dutifulness; and to feel that there lies in such a course the surest pledge of glory and true greatness. ..."

2. Christian Theology and Social Progress: The Bampton Lectures for 1905 by Frederick William Bussell (1907)
"... of restraint : dutifulness, a fundamental trait in primitive culture : with ' enlightenment' it disappears : all political reflection tends towards ..."

3. Life of William Davison: Secretary of State and Privy Counsellor to Queen by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1823)
"... been a piece of an undutiful dutifulness. The odds was, that some others were of opinion the authority was not increasing; you liked of this, as it is, ..."

4. Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott of Abbotsford: With Selections from His by Robert Ornsby (1884)
"... Profession—Correspondence with Lord Haddington—Secret Journey to Continent—Marriage of Mr. George W. Hope—Filial dutifulness of JR Hope—Charity to Sick ..."

5. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1896)
"... but of dutifulness and foreknowledge, that we might not think wrongly from the order of the words. For unity knows no order, equality knows no gradation ..."

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