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dutifulness

NOUN
  1. piety by virtue of devotion to duty

How To Use dutifulness In A Sentence

  • Great Regulars: One senses that the father has always taken the older son's dutifulness for granted, and that, perhaps, the older son has been so dutiful in order to win some greater measure of his father's love and approval. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The young Count adores her, and maintains her in her position with dutifulness worthy of all praise, and he is extremely good to his brother and sister. — Gobseck
  • These denominations view that sort of dutifulness as sufficient. Matthew Yglesias » Misfortune?
  • She was given to dutifulness, religious and artistic, and this strengthened her. Touched by Evil
  • It may be that Sutherland felt a need to compensate for previous injustices in the writing of this biography, but one sometimes has the sense that his dutifulness became a chore to him. A Nice Bloody Fool
  • The daughter in-law who severs ties with her mother in-law causes her husband to abandon his mother and sever his ties with her; thus, such a wife becomes the reason behind his undutifulness towards his mother.
  • Disobedience in this regard does not constitute undutifulness to parents.
  • While it is not an incumbent duty on either, considering their poverty, he will be doing an act of dutifulness which earns his parents and himself good reward.
  • It was downtempo weather that fit the air of dutifulness which surrounded the event. McCain’s Relaunch: Quick First Reaction - Swampland - TIME.com
  • On the other hand, too much solemnity and dutifulness creates a lifeless and narrow outlook and a stale psychological environment.
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