due
adjective
owed at present; having reached the date for payment.
dueness
-
a word derived from
due.
Example Sentences
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So also unnecessary taxation oppresses them, through destruction of capital, but the destiny of the poor depends primarily always on this one question of dueness of wages.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin
When the e is preceded by a vowel, it is sometimes omitted; as in duly, truly, awful, argument; but much more frequently retained; as in dueness, trueness, blueness, bluely, rueful, dueful, shoeless, eyeless.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
