All 9 Uses of
obligation
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Mr. Darcy often acknowledged himself to be under the greatest obligations to my father's active superintendence, and when, immediately before my father's death, Mr. Darcy gave him a voluntary promise of providing for me, I am convinced that he felt it to be as much a debt of gratitude to him, as of his affection to myself.†
p. 79.9
- Such a circumstance could only exasperate farther, and, when he ceased, the color rose into her cheeks, and she said: "In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned.†
p. 186.0
- It is natural that obligation should be felt, and if I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you.†
p. 186.1 *
- I must now mention a circumstance which I would wish to forget myself, and which no obligation less than the present should induce me to unfold to any human being.†
p. 196.3
- She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavored to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.†
p. 228.9
- Her eldest daughter endeavored to give some relief to the violence of these transports, by leading her thoughts to the obligations which Mr. Gardiner's behavior laid them all under.†
p. 290.1
- He was seriously concerned that a cause of so little advantage to anyone should be forwarded at the sole expense of his brother-in-law, and he was determined, if possible, to find out the extent of his assistance, and to discharge the obligation as soon as he could.†
p. 292.5
- The vague and unsettled suspicions which uncertainty had produced of what Mr. Darcy might have been doing to forward her sister's match, which she had feared to encourage as an exertion of goodness too great to be probable, and at the same time dreaded to be just, from the pain of obligation, were proved beyond their greatest extent to be true!†
p. 308.4
- It was painful, exceedingly painful, to know that they were under obligations to a person who could never receive a return.†
p. 309.1
Definition:
a duty