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class="" style="position:relative"><h1 title="Origin and meaning of dutiful" class="word__name--TTbAA">dutiful<!-- --> <!-- -->(adj.)</h1><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p>"performing the duties required by social or legal obligation; obediently respectful," 1550s, from <a href="/word/duty" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of duty " class="crossreference notranslate">duty</a> + <a href="/word/-ful" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of -ful " class="crossreference notranslate">-ful</a>. Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Dutifully; dutifulness</span>. Shakespeare uses <span class="foreign notranslate">duteous</span>.</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:1550s">1550s</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to dutiful">Entries linking to <i>dutiful</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of duty" href="/word/duty#etymonline_v_16018">duty<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>late 14c., <span class="foreign notranslate">duete</span>, "obligatory service, that which ought to be done," also "the force of that which is morally right," from Anglo-French <span class="foreign notranslate">duete</span>, from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">deu</span> "due, owed," hence "proper, just" (on the notion of "that which one is bound by natural, moral, or legal obligation to do or perform"); from Vulgar Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">*debutus</span>, from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">debitus</span>, past participle of <span class="foreign notranslate">debere</span> "to owe," originally, "keep something away from someone," from <span class="foreign notranslate">de-</span> "away" (see <a href="/word/de-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of de- " class="crossreference notranslate">de-</a>) + <span class="foreign notranslate">habere</span> "to have" (from PIE root <a href="/word/*ghabh-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *ghabh- " rel="nofollow" class="crossreference notranslate">*ghabh-</a> "to give or receive"). Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Duties</span>.</p> <p>Military sense of "a requisite service" is by 1580s. The sense of "tax or fee on imports, exports, etc." is from late 14c.; hence <span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>duty-free</strong></span> (adv.) "free from tax or duty" (1680s), and, as a noun, "duty-free article" (1958), "duty-free shop" (by 1980).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of -ful" href="/word/-ful#etymonline_v_32015">-ful<!-- --> <span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>word-forming element attached to nouns (and in modern English to verb stems) and meaning "full of, having, characterized by," also "amount or volume contained" (<span class="foreign notranslate">handful</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">bellyful</span>); from Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">-full</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">-ful</span>, which is <a href="/word/full#etymonline_v_14241" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of full " class="crossreference notranslate">full</a> (adj.) become a suffix by being coalesced with a preceding noun, but originally a separate word. Cognate with German <span class="foreign notranslate">-voll</span>, Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">-fullr</span>, Danish <span class="foreign notranslate">-fuld</span>. Most English <span class="foreign notranslate">-ful</span> adjectives at one time or another had both passive ("full of x") and active ("causing x; full of occasion for x") senses.</p> <p>It is rare in Old English and Middle English, where <span class="foreign notranslate">full</span> was much more commonly attached at the head of a word (for example Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">fulbrecan</span> "to violate," <span class="foreign notranslate">fulslean</span> "to kill outright," <span class="foreign notranslate">fulripod</span> "mature;" Middle English had <span class="foreign notranslate">ful-comen</span> "attain (a state), realize (a truth)," <span class="foreign notranslate">ful-lasting</span> "durability," <span class="foreign notranslate">ful-thriven</span> "complete, perfect," etc.).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of dutiful">Trends of <i>dutiful</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable.</div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="More to Explore">More to Explore</h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of obsequious" href="/word/obsequious"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">obsequious<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">late 15c., "prompt to serve, meekly compliant with the will or wishes of another, dutiful," from Latin obsequiosus "compliant..., obedient," from obsequium "compliance, dutiful service," from obsequi "to accommodate oneself to the will of another,"...</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of piety" href="/word/piety"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">piety<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">doublet, pity), from Old French piete "piety, faith; 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without companions," c. 1300, a contraction of all ane, from Old English all ana "unaccompanied, all by oneself," literally "wholly oneself," from all "all, wholly" (see all) + an "one" (see one). 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