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Due   /du/  /dju/   Listen
Due

adjective
1.
Owed and payable immediately or on demand.  Antonym: undue.
2.
Scheduled to arrive.
3.
Suitable to or expected in the circumstances.  "Due cause to honor them" , "A long due promotion" , "In due course" , "Due esteem" , "Exercising due care"  Antonym: undue.
4.
Capable of being assigned or credited to.  Synonyms: ascribable, imputable, referable.  "The cancellation of the concert was due to the rain" , "The oversight was not imputable to him"
noun
1.
That which is deserved or owed.
2.
A payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership).
adverb
1.
Directly or exactly; straight.



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... or envy that he could not keep his subjects in their duty but by oppression and ill usage, and by rendering them poor and miserable, it were certainly better for him to quit his kingdom than to retain it by such methods as make him, while he keeps the name of authority, lose the majesty due to it. Nor is it so becoming the dignity of a king to reign over beggars as over rich and happy subjects. And therefore Fabricius, a man of a noble and exalted temper, said 'he would rather govern rich men than be rich himself; since for one man to abound in wealth and pleasure when ...
— Utopia • Thomas More
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... territories and the non-European majority of Kaffirs, Negroes, Hindoos, Copts, or Arabs is regulated on entirely different lines in Natal, Basutoland, Egypt, or East Africa. In each case the constitutional difference is due not so much to the character of the local problem as to historical accident, and trouble may break out anywhere and at any time, either from the aggression of the Europeans upon the rights reserved by the Home Government to the non-Europeans, ...
— Human Nature In Politics - Third Edition • Graham Wallas
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... the allusion; I intended Merely to mention what is but too true. I really hope I may not have offended Any, in short—particularly you, Submissive reader, to whom thanks are due For having borne with my caprice so long, And your forbearance, I hope, you will renew Until the utmost limit of my song; I'll do my best ...
— The Minstrel - A Collection of Poems • Lennox Amott


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