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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He does not admit that obligation implies an obliger.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
There can be no obligation without an obliger.
From A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To stand on ceremony with obligations, Is to restrain the obliger.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
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
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
