devoir (devwor)

[F., duty, devoir, inf., owe, be obliged, Gas coigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 70. To do your highne service and devoir , And save you from your foes, Berkeley would die. Marlowe, Edward II., v. 2. The time you employ in this kind devoir is the time that I shall be grateful for. Mrs. Behn , Lover's Watch. To ancient females his devoirs were paid. Crabbe, Works, II. 39.