Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who obliges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, obliges.
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- noun One who, or that which,
obliges .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who performs a service or does a favor
Etymologies
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Examples
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L'arnaque se trouve dans le fait que si vous lisez peu vous vous retrouvez obliger de payer une selection de livres faite par eux.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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For the meaning of obligé in the era of Samuel de Champlain, see Le Grand Robert de la langue française, 6:2050–52, s.v., “obliger.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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For the meaning of obligé in the era of Samuel de Champlain, see Le Grand Robert de la langue française, 6:2050–52, s.v., “obliger.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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But to have received benefits from one whom we acknowledge for superior inclines to love; because the obligation is no new depression: and cheerful acceptation (which men call gratitude) is such an honour done to the obliger as is taken generally for retribution.
Leviathan 2007
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Sir Charles Who that lies under obligations which they cannot return, can view the obliger but with the most delicate sensibility?
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- And this being kept in mind, will always contribute to make the benefited receive, as thankfully as they ought, the favours of the obliger.
Pamela 2006
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What need you give one to imagine, my dear, that the last month or two has been a period extremely favourable to that other person, whom it has made an obliger of the niece for his patience with the uncles.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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And will she not think herself the obliged, rather than the obliger?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The notions of the obliged are changed, those of the obliger ought to change also.
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La seule solution consisterait à recourir à des législations internationales assez contraignantes pour obliger les gouvernements nationaux à respecter et à faire respecter la langue nationale dans leur propre pays (le français en France, le roumain en Roumanie, etc.), cela dans tous les domaines et pas seulement sur internet.
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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