different between obligatory vs restraining

obligatory

English

Etymology

From Middle English obligatorie, from Latin obligat?rius.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /??bl???t??i/, /??bl???t??i/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /??bl???t(?)?i/

Adjective

obligatory (comparative more obligatory, superlative most obligatory)

  1. Imposing obligation, legally, morally, or otherwise; binding; mandatory.
    • 1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory
      [] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.
  2. Requiring a matter or obligation.

Synonyms

  • bounden
  • mandatory

Antonyms

  • optional

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

  • obligatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Middle English

Adjective

obligatory

  1. Alternative form of obligatorie

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restraining

English

Verb

restraining

  1. present participle of restrain

Noun

restraining (plural restrainings)

  1. The act by which someone or something is restrained.
    • 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage
      She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; []

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