Devoir

Quick meaning: Devoir is a noun meaning (archaic, often in plural) Duty, business; something that one must do.

Meaning

(archaic, often in plural) Duty, business; something that one must do.

Example Sentences

I should have long ere this paid my devoirs to the inhabitants of Raymond Castle.

Then quoth the portress to the mistress of the house, "O my lady, arise and go to thy place that I in turn may do my devoir."

[…] he imprint not so much in his schollers mind […] where Marcellus died, as because he was unworthy of his devoire he died there[…].

That is the little bit of essential information which enables us to complete our devoir – without it we are just ordinary people, dispossessed, taken unawares: the original sin!

Word Forms

• devoirs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include duty, obligation, responsibility, assignment, dette, necessary.

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