oblige
verb (used with object)
to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
obliger
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a word derived from
oblige.
Example Sentences
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The notions of the obliged are changed, those of the obliger ought to change also.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by Aimée G. Leffingwel McKenzie
And will she not think herself the obliged, rather than the obliger?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson
Indeed I would not place them,' continued the dear obliger, 'in the same county, because I would wish two counties to be blessed for their sakes.'...
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
There can be no obligation without an obliger.
From A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley
He does not admit that obligation implies an obliger.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
