All 4 Uses of
obligation
in
The Age of Innocence
- For a moment he could not speak; then he said: "There is no pledge—no obligation whatever—of the kind you think.†
Chpt 16
- So far he was reasonably sure of having fulfilled all his obligations.†
Chpt 19 *
- After that there was still time to review, one by one, the familiar countenances in the first rows; the women's sharp with curiosity and excitement, the men's sulky with the obligation of having to put on their frock-coats before luncheon, and fight for food at the wedding-breakfast.†
Chpt 19
- So much, with tears and gasps of horror, Mrs. Welland imparted, blanched and demolished by the unwonted obligation of having at last to fix her eyes on the unpleasant and the discreditable.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(obligation) a duty