dueness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

due +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

dueness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.
    • a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, Of the Creatures, and the Condition of their State by Creation:
      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 creatures

References[edit]

“dueness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams[edit]

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