All 3 Uses
obligatory
in
The Book Thief
(Edited)
- The book showed up at 33 Himmel Street perhaps an hour after Liesel had drifted back to sleep from her obligatory nightmare.
p. 125.3obligatory = seemingly required
- The obligatory Schimpferei occurred in the kitchen, and Liesel composed herself with the fact that there were still two left, and even better, one of them was the mayor, the wife, the books.
p. 161.3obligatory = required
- There was the obligatory march around the grounds.
p. 360.9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(obligatory) required (by rule, law, or expectation)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)