Meaning of due | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. owed
3. Deserved acknowledgment.
4. A membership fee.
   in-plural
5. That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
6. past participle of deber
7. Right; just title or claim.

Equivalents

Examples

“Give him his due – he is a good actor.”

“Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.”

“Chelsea, to give them their due, did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.”

“He will give the devil his due.”

“Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, / Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, / Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; […]”

“For I am but an earthly Muse, ⁠And owning but a little art ⁠To lull with song an aching heart, And render human love his dues; […]”

“The key of this infernal pit by due […] I keep.”

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