duteous

Irregular combination of duty +‎ -ous.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdjuː.ti.əs/, /ˈdʒuː.ti.əs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ti.əs/
• Rhymes: -uːtiəs

duteous (comparative more duteous, superlative most duteous)

1. (archaic) dutiful

   a duteous son

2. (archaic) Obsequious; submissively obedient.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act iv, scene 6 (First Folio ed.)

     I know thee well. A ſeruiceable Villaine,
     As duteous to the vices of thy Miſtris,
     As badneſſe would deſire.

   • 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Heart of the Night, lines 10-14

     O Lord, the awful Lord of will! though late,

     Even yet renew this soul with duteous breath:

     That when the peace is garnered in from strife,

     The work retrieved, the will regenerate,

     This soul may see thy face, O Lord of death!

• duteously
• duty
• unduteous

• The Oxford English Dictionary