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Due   /du/  /dju/   Listen
Due

adjective
1.
Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
2.
Scheduled to arrive.
3.
Suitable to or expected in the circumstances.  "Due cause to honor them" , "A long due promotion" , "In due course" , "Due esteem" , "Exercising due care"
4.
Capable of being assigned or credited to.  Synonyms: ascribable, imputable, referable.  "The cancellation of the concert was due to the rain" , "The oversight was not imputable to him"
noun
1.
That which is deserved or owed.
2.
A payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership).
adverb
1.
Directly or exactly; straight.



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... of sympathy, the young fellow received a note from Lady Cantourne, whose acquaintance he had successfully renewed, and in due course he called at her house in Vere Gardens to ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... in the 'Encyclopedie,' and the great number of men of letters who consecrate their labors to it, authorize us to regard this work as the most proper monument to preserve the grateful sentiments of our country, and that respect which is due to the memory of those celebrated men who have done it honor. Persuaded, however, that M. de Montesquieu had a title to expect other panegyrics, and that the public grief deserved to be described by more eloquent pens, we should have paid his great memory the ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner
... privacy, but took an early opportunity of placing them under the protection of the late excellent Bishop, your own ally, and who was (may God assoil him!) a better judge than I, or any secular prince, how to reconcile the protection due to fugitives with the duty which a king owes to his ally, from whose dominions they have fled. I boldly ask this young lady whether my reception of them was cordial, or whether it was not, on the contrary, such as made them express regret that they had made ...
— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott
... Great praise was due to General Hancock, and perhaps still more to General Howard, for early perceiving the strength of Cemetery Hill as a defensible position. On the first day, after General Reynolds had fallen at his post of duty with the First Corps, General Doubleday, next in command, was on the point of ordering ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XII • John Lord
... never be definitive: it will leap from one to the other indefinitely. The evolution of life in the double direction of individuality and association has therefore nothing accidental about it: it is due to the ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson


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