单词 | obligatoriness |
释义 | obligatorinessn. The quality or fact of being obligatory; bindingness. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > [noun] > binding quality or force bondagea1616 obligingness1648 obligatoriness1650 obligativeness1678 obligancy1826 imperativeness1879 1650 Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers 28 The obligatorinesse of the Oaths and Covenant. a1817 T. Dehon Serm. Public Means of Grace (1856) xi. 135 A leading cause of the neglect of this ordinance, is a thoughtlessness of its nature and obligatoriness. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xxii. 419 The obligatoriness of circumcision had at that time been less seriously impugned. 1903 N.E.D. at Oughtness That quality of an action which is expressed by ‘ought’; moral obligatoriness. 1984 V. P. Guzman & S. J. Bell in Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 27 176 H. Bluhm concludes that one must look to the communicative situation in order to determine the optionality or obligatoriness of a constituent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1650 |
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