obligatory
adjective
required as a matter of obligation; mandatory.
obligatoriness
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a word derived from
obligatory.
Example Sentences
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The text as to the lifelong obligatoriness of the Agnihotra is valid for those only who do not retire from worldly life.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut
Another quality must be added, and that quality I contend to be obligatoriness.
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton
Hence the only part of morality that can be co-eternal with God, is simply the rules of morality, without their obligatoriness, the salt without its savour.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
II.—The moral faculty is Reason; Conscience is hardly more than a confused feeling of obligatoriness.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
"It's not the chapel I object to; it's the obligatoriness."
From When Patty Went to College by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
