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† disobliˈgation Obs.
[f. dis- 9 + obligation; after disoblige.]
1. Freedom or release from obligation.
1616Brent tr. Sarpi's Hist. Council Trent (1676) 631 The place doth not prove a dispensation, that is, a disobligation from the Law. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. ii. 411 (L.) The conscience is restored to liberty and disobligation. 1770Monthly Rev. 363 The disobligation..being cancelled..leaves the obligation without abatement.
2. A disobliging action; an act that either negligently or purposely thwarts a person's convenience or wishes; a piece of inconsiderate treatment; a slight, affront, insult.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iv. §127 By the disobligations his family had undergone from the duke of Buckingham. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 132 Noy..wheel'd about..and made amends with his future service, for his former dis-obligations. 1739Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 295 Mrs. Oldfield receiv'd it rather as a favour than a disobligation. 1788Hist. in Ann. Reg. 61 Russia had..heaped disobligation upon disobligation, in her transactions with Great Britain.
3. The fact or feeling of being disobliged.
1645F. Thorpe in Hull Lett. (1886) 120 To sowe seedes of discention and disobligation betwixt the two nations. 1713Steele Englishman No. 1. 9, I..shall never give a Vote out of Peevishness or personal Disobligation. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) III. ix. 66 Your Lordship's good resolutions..must be built on a better foundation than occasional disgust or disobligation.
b. An instance of this feeling; a grudge.
a1754Fielding Journ. Lisbon i. x, Besides his disloyalty..I have private disobligations to him. |