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Du·ti·ful a.
1. Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.
2. Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.
Syn: -- Duteous; obedient; reverent; reverential; submissive; docile; respectful; compliant.
-- Du*ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Du*ti*ful*ness, n.
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dutifully
adv : out of a sense of duty; in a dutiful manner; "he dutifully
visited his mother every Sunday"