devoir
noun/dəˈvwɑː/
Etymology
From Middle English devoir, borrowed from Middle French devoir, from Old French deveir, from Latin dēbēre (“to owe; ought, must”).
- inherited from devoir
Definitions
Duty, business
Duty, business; something that one must do.
- […] he imprint not so much in his schollers mind […] where Marcellus died, as because he was unworthy of his devoire he died there[…].
- I should have long ere this paid my devoirs to the inhabitants of Raymond Castle.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for devoir. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA