Both Uses of
obligatory
in
War and Peace
- He did not know that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs' payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work had been increased by a half.†
Chpt 5 *
- And such a state of obligatory and irreproachable idleness is the lot of a whole class—the military.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(obligatory) required (by rule, law, or expectation)