oblige
Example Sentences
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Oblige, and Apple will reward you by populating the default “For You” tab in the app with a cleanly arranged stream of recent stories culled from the outlets you’ve specified.
From Slate • Sep. 18, 2015
Though Noblesse Oblige is obviously the definitive work on the subject, the controversy really began with a learned paper, published in Helsinki by Philologist Alan S. C. Ross of the University of Birmingham.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Oblige him! how does your wisdom interpret this?"
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von
American women of leisure must awaken to an appreciation of the democratic idea of Noblesse Oblige.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted
But unfortunately, with a few exceptions, they rest contented with playing the Lady Bountiful and their only appreciation of the spirit of Noblesse Oblige has been the old, aristocratic idea of charity....
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted
Vocabulary lists containing oblige
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 1
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Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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