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dueness

dueness noun: quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.

Noun

dueness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.
    • On God's part , I would call it a dueness, remembering how Paul prohibits the word "recompence" as any way challengeable by any or all the creaturesa. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, Of the Creatures, and the Condition of their State by Creation

Origin of dueness

From due + -ness.

Questions about dueness

What does dueness mean?
Dueness means quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.
What part of speech is dueness?
Dueness is a noun.

Words near dueness in the dictionary

  1. Duenas
  2. Duenases
  3. Duenchukha
  4. duende
  5. duendes
  6. dueness
  7. Duenez
  8. Duenezes
  9. duenna
  10. duennadom
  11. duennas

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