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Devoir   Listen
noun
Devoir  n.  Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies. "Do now your devoid, young knights!"





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"Devoir" Quotes from Famous Books



... I am master of slaves, of my own purchase! I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living here without them. I will not, I cannot justify it. However capable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue, as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various


Words linked to "Devoir" :   politeness, civility


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