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Devoir

noun

Formal expression of respect.

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"Devoir" Quotes from Famous Books

... virtues, unless they have their origin and consecration in private and domestic virtues, are but the virtues of the theatre. He who has not a loving heart for his child, cannot pretend to have any true love for humanity.—Jules Simon's LE DEVOIR.] ...

— Character • Samuel Smiles

... the service, I fondly concluded that my little devoir was finished for the day, and that I might now retire to collect my agitated nerves in quiet, but at the porch I was requested to visit an old woman who was lying in the poor-house, in the last stage of a dropsy. The only entrance to her chamber, or rather, her loft, was by an upright ladder fixed ...

— Confessions of an Etonian • I. E. M.

... keep the day; but who can brood On memories of unkingly John, Or of the leek His Highness chewed, Or of the stone he wrote upon? To Freedom born so long ago, We do devoir in very deed, If heedless as the clouds we row With fruit and ...

— Ionica • William Cory (AKA William Johnson)

... shoulder, at the same time, as usual, gently repelling me, and observed: 'Voyons, mon enfant, du courage! Nous sommes tous mortels! Et puis il n'y a pas encore de danger. Ce n'est qu'une prcaution que j'ai cru devoir ...

— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

Words linked to "Devoir" : politeness, civility