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Undutifulness

noun
1.
Impiety characterized by lack of devotion to duty.






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"Undutifulness" Quotes from Famous Books



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— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding

... ALL-GRACIOUSEST FATHER,—To your Royal Majesty, my All-graciousest Father, have,"—I.E. "I have," if one durst write the "I,"—"by my disobedience as TheirO [YourO] subject and soldier, not less than by my undutifulness as TheirO Son, given occasion to a just wrath and aversion against me. With the All-obedientest respect I submit myself wholly to the grace of my most All-gracious Father; and beg him, Most All-graciously to pardon me; as it is not so much the withdrawal ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VIII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle



Words linked to "Undutifulness" :   impiety, impiousness, undutiful



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