Synonyms for obligatoriness
- authority
- burden
- duty
- guilt
- importance
- liability
- obligation
- power
- restraint
- trust
- albatross
- amenability
- answerability
- care
- charge
- constraint
- contract
- culpability
- encumbrance
- engagement
- fault
- incubus
- incumbency
- onus
- pledge
- rap
- subjection
- boundness
- holding the bag
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He establishes the obligatoriness of this commandment for every Christian who professes the Bible as a divine revelation.
Another quality must be added, and that quality I contend to be obligatoriness.
WORD ORIGIN
c.1400, from Old French obligatoire "creating an obligation, obligatory," and directly from Late Latin obligatorius "binding," from obligat-, past participle stem of obligare (see oblige).
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