All 4 Uses of
obligation
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- The most awful recollection of the previous day was the way he had shown himself "base and mean," not only because he had been drunk, but because he had taken advantage of the young girl's position to abuse her fiance in his stupid jealousy, knowing nothing of their mutual relations and obligations and next to nothing of the man himself.†
Chpt 3.2
- You say 'you or he,' showing thereby of how little consequence I am in your eyes...I cannot let this pass considering the relationship and...the obligations existing between us.†
Chpt 4.2 *
- In fact, I triumphed, while my lady remained firmly convinced that she was innocent, chaste, and faithful to all her duties and obligations and had succumbed quite by accident.†
Chpt 6.4
- How can you undertake such obligations so heedlessly, Sofya Semyonovna?†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
a duty