disoblige en · VERB
Etymology
From Middle French desobliger. By surface analysis, dis- + oblige.
Meanings
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(UK) to be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
Sorry to disoblige everybody; I know you were depending on me to bring a good weather forecast for our fête, but it is going to rain.
But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a Lieutenant of Marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 2:
- (UK) To offend by an act of unkindness or incivility.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| disobliges | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| disobliging | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| disobliged | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| disobliged | Tense=Past | lexicographic |