All 8 Uses of
oblige
in
Candide
- At the end of two months, being obliged to go to Lisbon about some mercantile affairs, he took the two philosophers with him in his ship.†
Chpt 4
- The extremities of famine to which they were reduced, obliged them to eat our two eunuchs, for fear of violating their oath.†
Chpt 12
- As soon as my companions could walk, they were obliged to set out for Moscow.†
Chpt 12 *
- The manner in which he asked the question alarmed Candide; he durst not say she was his wife, because indeed she was not; neither durst he say she was his sister, because it was not so; and although this obliging lie had been formerly much in favour among the ancients, and although it could be useful to the moderns, his soul was too pure to betray the truth.†
Chpt 13
- Most of the company were chapmen and waggoners, all extremely polite; they asked Cacambo a few questions with the greatest circumspection, and answered his in the most obliging manner.†
Chpt 17 *
- I was obliged to quit the castle some time after the Baron had sent you away with kicks on the backside.†
Chpt 24
- I was soon supplanted by a rival, turned out of doors quite destitute, and obliged to continue this abominable trade, which appears so pleasant to you men, while to us women it is the utmost abyss of misery.†
Chpt 24
- Ah! sir, if you could only imagine what it is to be obliged to caress indifferently an old merchant, a lawyer, a monk, a gondolier, an abbe, to be exposed to abuse and insults; to be often reduced to borrowing a petticoat, only to go and have it raised by a disagreeable man; to be robbed by one of what one has earned from another; to be subject to the extortions of the officers of justice; and to have in prospect only a frightful old age, a hospital, and a dung-hill; you would conclude…†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(oblige as in: I obliged her every request.) grant a favor to someone
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(oblige as in: I am obliged by law.) require (obligate) to do something