All 8 Uses of
oblige
in
Crime and Punishment
- The landlady who provided him with garret, dinners, and attendance, lived on the floor below, and every time he went out he was obliged to pass her kitchen, the door of which invariably stood open.†
Chpt 1.1
- For the present he, too, had been obliged to give up the university, but it was only for a time, and he was working with all his might to save enough to return to his studies again.†
Chpt 1.4
- Tolstyakov, a friend of mine, is always obliged to take off his pudding basin when he goes into any public place where other people wear their hats or caps.†
Chpt 2.3
- In that case, Rodion Romanovitch, I shall be obliged to try and see her myself and worry her by doing so.†
Chpt 4.1
- "Oh, I'm quite obliged to…." he answered vaguely, as though hesitating what he would say.†
Chpt 4.3 *
- Possibly Katerina Ivanovna felt obliged to honour the memory of the deceased "suitably," that all the lodgers, and still more Amalia Ivanovna, might know "that he was in no way their inferior, and perhaps very much their superior," and that no one had the right "to turn up his nose at him."†
Chpt 5.2
- She never asked a direct question, but began by smiling and rubbing her hands and then, if she were obliged to ascertain something—for instance, when Svidrigailov would like to have the wedding—she would begin by interested and almost eager questions about Paris and the court life there, and only by degrees brought the conversation round to Third Street.†
Chpt 6.6
- Svidrigailov informed her at once that he was obliged by very important affairs to leave Petersburg for a time, and therefore brought her fifteen thousand roubles and begged her accept them as a present from him, as he had long been intending to make her this trifling present before their wedding.†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
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(oblige as in: I am obliged by law.) require (obligate) to do something