disobligation

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noun

The act of disobliging.

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Meanings

noundisobligation (countable and uncountable, plural disobligations)

plural disobligations

  1. countableuncountableThe act of disobliging.
  2. countableuncountableA 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. countableuncountableRelease 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

Origin

From dis- + obligation.

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APA

disobligation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disobligation

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Chicago

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