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Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service..

Testimonial :: Testimonial (a.) Something, as money or plate, presented to a preson as a token of respect, or of obligation for services rendered..

Strength :: Strength (n.) That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument..

Quit :: Quit (v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted..

Answer :: Answer (n.) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell..

Disobligatory :: Disobligatory (a.) Releasing from obligation.

Due :: Due (a.) Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time..

Obligable :: Obligable (a.) Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy..

Preengagement :: Preengagement (n.) Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection..

Acknowledge :: Acknowledge (v. t.) To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter..

Tender :: Tender (n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation..

Humanitarianism :: Humanitarianism (n.) The doctrine that man's obligations are limited to, and dependent alone upon, man and the human relations..

Deontology :: Deontology (n.) The science relat/ to duty or moral obligation.

Surf :: Suretyship (n.) The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another..

Novation :: Novation (n.) A substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the remodeling of an old obligation..

Security :: Security (n.) Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge..

Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .

Mortgage :: Mortgage (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation..

Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.)..

Sacrament :: Sacrament (n.) The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath..

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