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obligation
English
Etymology
From Middle English obligacioun, from Old French obligacion, from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from obligatum (past participle of obligare), from ob- (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley?- (“to bind”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?b.l???e?.??n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
obligation (countable and uncountable, plural obligations)
- The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
- A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
- A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
- (law) A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with "obligation": moral, legal, social, contractual, political, mutual, military, perpetual, etc.
Synonyms
- (the act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone): commitment
- (requirement, duty, contract or promise): duty
Antonyms
- (requirement, duty, contract or promise): right
Related terms
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from the verb oblig? (“tie together”).
Pronunciation
Noun
obligation f (plural obligations)
- obligation
Related terms
- obliger
Further reading
- “obligation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Noun
obligation
- Alternative form of obligacioun
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duress
English
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dj????s/, /d??????s/
- (US) IPA(key): /du???s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Noun
duress (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- The agreements […] made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Constraint by threat.
- (law) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
Related terms
- endure
Translations
Verb
duress (third-person singular simple present duresses, present participle duressing, simple past and past participle duressed)
- To put under duress; to pressure.
- Someone was duressing her.
- The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.
Anagrams
- Druses, Suders, druses, sudser
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