Oblige vs Obedience - What's the difference?
oblige | obedience |
To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
To do someone a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
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To be indebted to someone.
To do a service or favour.
English control verbs
English intransitive verbs
English transitive verbs
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The quality of being obedient.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
As a verb oblige
is .As a noun obedience is
persuasion; allegiance.oblige
English
Verb
(oblig)- I am obliged to report to the police station every week.
- He obliged me by not parking his car in the drive.
- I am obliged to you for your recent help.
- The singer obliged with another song.
Derived terms
* disobligeUsage notes
"Obliged" has largely replaced "obligate"; the latter being more common in the the 17th through 19th centuries.The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage (1996)Anagrams
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obedience
English
(wikipedia obedience)Alternative forms
* , (l) (qualifier)Noun
(-)- Obedience is essential in any army.
- Cautioning Nobs to silence, and he had learned many lessons in the value of obedience since we had entered Caspak, I slunk forward, taking advantage of whatever cover I could find...