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obligative, a.|ˈɒblɪgətɪv|
[f. L. obligāt-, ppl. stem of obligāre to oblige + -ive.]
1. Imposing obligation; obligatory.
1596Bell Surv. Popery iii. ii. 240 Or give power obligative unto them. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. ii. 242 Bills and answers..processiue, justificatiue, obligatiue..renunciatiue, and infinite other the like. 1875Poste Gaius i. (ed. 2) 73 Contract in the narrower sense may..be distinguished as an obligative contract.
2. Gram. Of a verb form, mood, etc.: implying obligation. Hence as n.
1877W. D. Whitney Essent. Eng. Gram. v. 122 With must and ought (to) we make forms which may be called obligative, ‘implying obligation’: thus, I must give, I ought to give. 1968J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics vii. 309 The distinction between the ‘obligative’ and the ‘inferential’ sense associated with the auxiliary verb must in English is neutralized in a non-part sentence like He must come regularly. Ibid., There is a further distinction within the ‘obligative’ in English, which has to do with the acceptance or fulfilment of the obligation. 1974W. P. Lehmann Proto-Indo-Europ. Syntax iv. 105 The PIE subjunctive may resemble in meaning an obligative. Ibid. 131 In time the obligative meaning of the subjunctive came to be subsidiary to its function of indicating subordination.
Hence ˈobligativeness, obligatoriness.
1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 165 The Obligativeness and Reasonableness of the Institution. 1831R. Sharp Lett. & Ess. (1834) 150 The obligativeness of moral conduct. |