All 13 Uses
oblige
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- She would gladly have stopped at the door to listen, as she came out; but her mistress just then calling, she was obliged to hasten away.†
Chpt 1.1
- "Circumstances, you well know, obliged me," said Shelby, haughtily.†
Chpt 1.4
- For some singular reason, an impression seemed to reign among the servants generally that Missis would not be particularly disobliged by delay; and it was wonderful what a number of counter accidents occurred constantly, to retard the course of things.†
Chpt 1.7disobliged = ignored someone's wishes or caused inconvenience or discomfortstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disobliged reverses the meaning of obliged. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
- You see yourself that we have only done what we were obliged to.†
Chpt 1.8
- They were owing money; and there was some way, I can't tell how, that a man had a hold on them, and they were obliged to give him his will.†
Chpt 1.9
- Ever quiet and obliging, and more than ready to lend a hand in every emergency which occurred among the workmen below, he had won the good opinion of all the hands, and spent many hours in helping them with as hearty a good will as ever he worked on a Kentucky farm.†
Chpt 1.14
- Now, as a matter of Christian charity, how cheap could you afford to let him go, to oblige a young lady that's particular sot on him?†
Chpt 1.14
- "Papa is much obliged to you for his recommendation," said St. Clare, laughing, as he turned on his heel and walked away.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- As to Dolph, the case is this: that he has so long been engaged in imitating my graces and perfections, that he has, at last, really mistaken himself for his master; and I have been obliged to give him a little insight into his mistake.†
Chpt 1.16
- Why, I was obliged to let him understand explicitly that I preferred to keep some of my clothes for my own personal wearing; also, I put his magnificence upon an allowance of cologne-water, and actually was so cruel as to restrict him to one dozen of my cambric handkerchiefs.†
Chpt 1.16
- "You sweet, little obliging soul!" said St. Clare, kissing her; "go along, that's a good girl, and pray for me."†
Chpt 1.16 *
- Thee'll much oblige us, friend George, to say no more about that.†
Chpt 1.17
- Justice, too, obliges the author to state that the fairness of mind and generosity attributed to St. Clare are not without a parallel, as the following anecdote will show.†
Chpt 2.45
Definitions:
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(1)
(oblige as in: I am obliged by law.) require (obligate) to do something
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(2)
(oblige as in: I obliged her every request.) grant a favor to someone
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(3)
(obliged as in: I'm much obliged for your kindness) grateful or indebted
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, in classic literature you may see oblige as a synonym for ask as when Jules Verne wrote "I obliged the Professor to move his lamp over the walls of the gallery," in Journey to the Center of the Earth.