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disobligation en · NOUN

Etymology

From dis- + obligation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of disobliging.
2. (countable, uncountable) A disobliging act; an offence.
   • [they] were in truth more offended and incensed with the disgrace and disobligation to the one , than they were pleased with the preferment of the other 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:
3. (countable, uncountable) Release from obligation.
   • However the laws were established , yet according as they go off , or go less , or fall into desuetude or disobligation , so the band of conscience grows less , till it be quite eased by abrogation 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:

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