Definition of Civic duty

1. Noun. The responsibilities of a citizen.

Exact synonyms: Civic Responsibility
Generic synonyms: Duty, Obligation, Responsibility
Specialized synonyms: Jury Duty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Civic Duty

citywide
civ
cive
cives
civet
civet bean
civet cat
civetlike
civetone
civets
civic
civic center
civic crown
civic crowns
civic duty (current term)
civic leader
civic pride
civic responsibility
civic spirit
civically
civicism
civicisms
civics
civie
civies
civil
civil-law
civil-libertarian
civil-marriage

Literary usage of Civic duty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Civics: A Textbook for Secondary Schools by Roscoe Lewis Ashley (1921)
"civic duty. — civic duty is not necessarily something outside of our everyday ... Yet civic duty is more than all these, just as the character of any man or ..."

2. The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler (1908)
"THE ELEMENTS OF civic duty. It should be the aim of the school not only to connect the system of school duties with the duties of the previous period, ..."

3. History as Past Ethics: An Introduction to the History of Morals by Philip Van Ness Myers (1913)
"... ROMAN MORALS: AN IDEAL OF civic duty I. INSTITUTIONS AND CONDITIONS OF LIFE DETERMINING THE EARLY MORAL TYPE The Roman The family in early Rome may more ..."

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