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Webster 1913 Edition

obliging

o-bli′ging

(ō̍-blī′jĭng)
,
Adj.
Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.
Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very
obliging
to a stranger who desires the sight of them.
Addison.
Syn. – Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, –
Obliging
,
Kind
,
Complaisant
.
One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one who is obliging performs some actual service, or has the disposition to do so.
–
O-bli′ging-ly
.
adv.
–
O-bli′ging-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Obliging

OBLI'GING

, ppr.
1.
Binding in law or conscience; compelling; constraining.
2.
Doing a favor to.
No man can long be the enemy of one whom he is in the habit of obliging.

OBLI'GING

,
Adj.
Having the disposition to do favors, or actually conferring them; as an obliging man; a man of an obliging disposition; hence, civil; complaisant; kind.
Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger that desires the sight of them.

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