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devoir

noun /dəˈvwɑː/

  1. Duty, business; something that one must do.

    archaic

    […] he imprint not so much in his schollers mind […] where Marcellus died, as because he was unworthy of his devoire he died there[…].

Where it comes from

From Middle English devoir, borrowed from Middle French devoir, from Old French deveir, from Latin dēbēre (“to owe; ought, must”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry devoir (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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