Definitions | devoir |
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- (archaic) duty, Duty, business; something which one must do.
- 1885: 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 ." " Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol. 1
Etymology: From deveir (French French, devoir), from Latin debere "to owe".
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