Etymology

disoblige

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Today it means: to be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate. Full definition →

Middle French desobliger
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  1. Middle French · borrowed fromdesobliger
  2. English todaydisoblige

From Middle French desobliger. By surface analysis, dis- + oblige.

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