Definition of duty

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Duty (n.) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.

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Attend :: Attend (v. i.) To accompany or be present or near at hand, in pursuance of duty; to be ready for service; to wait or be in waiting; -- often followed by on or upon..
Shortcoming :: Shortcoming (n.) Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty..
Return :: Return (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information..
Imposing :: Imposing (a.) Laying as a duty; enjoining.
Bond :: Bond (n.) Moral or political duty or obligation.
Pay :: Pay (v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised..
Register :: Register (n.) One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds..
Moral :: Moral (a.) Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
Weigher :: Weigher (n.) One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities..
Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir..
Debauchment :: Debauchment (n.) The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
Serve :: Serve (v. i.) To be in service; to do duty; to discharge the requirements of an office or employment. Specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc..
Fratricelli :: Fratricelli (n. pl.) A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli..
Formal :: Formal (a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc..
Course :: Course (n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
Tronator :: Tronator (n.) An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.
Discourse :: Discourse (n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty..
Office :: Office (n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office..
Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..
Quixotism :: Quixotism (n.) That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry..
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