dueful
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dueful (comparative more dueful, superlative most dueful)
- (archaic) Suitable, appropriate.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- her lives Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deserved, as his duefull meed, / Her love, her service, and her utmost wealth […]