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Definition of Dutifully
Dutifully Dutiful Du"ti*ful, a.
1. 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.
2. Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty;
respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.
Syn: Duteous; obedient; reverent; reverential; submissive;
docile; respectful; compliant. -- Du"ti*ful*ly, adv.
-- Du"ti*ful*ness, n.
