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
Well, Louiee, he's be careful, risk notting, he's laugh w'en a'm buy some paddell, Armand he's buy some for obligement, he's not half so careful's Louiee.
From Sonnets and Other Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
But ’twould be an obligement to me if you’d go along and keep him in countenance.”
From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Evelyn Raymond
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