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obliger|əˈblaɪdʒə(r)|
[f. oblige v. + -er1.]
One who obliges.
1. One who binds another to the performance of a contract, law, or duty; one who imposes obligation. († In early quots., One to whom another is bound: = obligee 1.)
1650Hobbes De Corp. Pol. 16 Universally..all obligations are determinable at the Will of the Obliger. 1651― Govt. & Soc. ii. §13. 27, I call him the Obliger to whom any one is tyed, and the Obliged him who is tyed. 1651G. W. tr. Cowel's Inst. 175 If the Covenanter thinketh and supposeth one thing and the Obliger another, the Covenant is no more valid then [etc.]. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 45 Obligation, in general, necessarily implies an Obliger. a1822Shelley Pr. Wks. (1888) II. 197 There can be no obligation without an obliger. 1895Edin. Rev. July 219 Obligation implies at least two terms—the obliged and the obliger.
2. a. One who confers an obligation or favour.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I.) 111 You are so gracious an obliger, that it doth even augment the value of your bounty. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. ii. 15 Shall it be said, that fear makes us more gentle obligers than love? 1893K. Grahame Pagan Ess. 69 Some unfortunate allusion shall pain the delicate feelings of the obliger.
b. One who obliges (sense 6 d); a charwoman. euphem.
1959T. Girtin Unnatural Break 107, I thought that it was a bit odd the tea-things not being cleared away. I mean that looks as if they hadn't got an obliger. 1960P. Coleridge Running Footsteps 63, I was agreeably surprised to be confronted by an elderly obliger, trailing a floor-mop. |