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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dutiful \Du"ti*ful\, adjective
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}, adverb -- {Du"ti*ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dutiful
adjective: willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife"; [syn: {duteous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "dutiful": Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, accommodating, acquiescent, active, adoring, attentive, believing, cap in hand, ceremonious, compliant, complying, conforming, conscientious, considerate, constant, courteous, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deferential, devoted, devout, diligent, duteous, ethical, faithful, filial, flexible, honorific, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meticulous, mindful, moral, obedient, obliging, observant, pietistic, pious, pliant, polite, practicing, prayerful, punctilious, punctual, regardful, reliable, religious, respectful, responsible, reverent, reverential, scrupulous, solemn, submissive, theistic, true, venerational, venerative, willing, worshipful, yielding
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