dutifulness
- n piety by virtue of devotion to duty
- On the other hand, there's something noble about the birds' dutifulness, about the mothers' response to a chick's death and about director Jacquet's refusal to impose human .
- It is a measure of their dutifulness that they often evoke a certain patriotism to rationalize their choice.
- He clearly believes in marriage, family, bourgeois dutifulness.