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Duty

noun

(pl. duties)

The social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force. Synonyms: obligation, responsibility. "Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"

Work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons.

A government tax on imports or exports. Synonym: tariff.

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"Duty" Quotes from Famous Books

... soon put an end to my mental strength; I therefore use the last clear gleams of intelligence to implore you to befriend my children and replace the heart of which you have deprived them. I would solemnly impose this duty upon you if I loved you less; but I prefer to let you choose it for yourself as an act of sacred repentance, and also in faithful continuance of your love—love, for us, was ever mingled with repentant thoughts and expiatory fears! but—I know it ...

— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac

... incubation; but the male takes no part in this domestic duty, further than to supply his loved mate with plenty of fish while she does the hatching business. Of course, thus protected, the osprey is not a rare bird. On the contrary, fish-hawks are more numerous than perhaps any other species of the hawk tribe. Twenty or thirty nests may be seen near each ...

— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid

... surprise, Larry was perfectly prepared to undertake the duty imposed on him, feeling flattered at being employed, and taking rather a pleasure at the thoughts of having to entrap some of ...

— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston

... only adds discomfort, because there are no complaints to soothe; hence it is the duty of every mother so to train her sons in health-habits that those first drinks will be discouraging because they bring no cheer of contrast, but rather sensations that are not suggestive ...

— The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure • Edward Hooker Dewey

... to say, it is stated to be the philosopher's duty from the outset to renounce the usual forms of analytic and synthetic thought, and to achieve a direct intuitional effort which shall put him in immediate contact with reality. Without doubt it is this question of method ...

— A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson • Edouard le Roy

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