obligement
Britishnoun
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Your merit shall her beauty's power remove; Beauty but gains, obligement keeps our love.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
This was an obligement never to be forgotten, and the more to be considered because antecedent to her love.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
My brothers best their own obligement know; Without your charging me with what they owe.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott
“Oh, well, as long as it’s been an obligement to you, I don’t so much care,” said the virtuous Cripps.
From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed
I doubt not but it will be taken as acceptable service to God’s church and beleeve it a very thankeful obligement to Honoured Sir, Your truely Loving Brother,” Thomas Disney.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
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