Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Freedom from obligation.
- noun The act of disobliging; an act showing disregard of obligation, or unwillingness to oblige.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disobliging.
- noun obsolete A disobliging act; an offense.
- noun Release from obligation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
disobliging . - noun A disobliging act; an
offence . - noun
Release fromobligation .
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Examples
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I am not sorry for it: now will she not have any body to compare notes with: any body to alarm her: and I may be saved the guilt and disobligation of inspecting into a correspondence that has long made me uneasy.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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He demonstrated to her, -- that the disobligation to her Parents would be greater by going to a Monastery, since it was only to avoid a choice which they had made for her, and which she could not have so just a pretence to do till she had made one for her self.
Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd William Congreve 1699
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She "receiv'd it rather as a favour than a disobligation.
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902
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