Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fitness; propriety; due quality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Quality of being
due ;debt ; what is due orbecoming .
Etymologies
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due + -ness
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Examples
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I wish ye were once persuaded of this, — that all sinners must once appear before God’s tribunal and hear the righteous sentence of the dueness of punishment pronounced; I say, all must once appear, either to hear and believe it, or to see it executed.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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