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Word Of Obligation Crossword Clue

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noun

• Property; possession

• Duty; place; office

27%6 A word expressing moral obligation
verb

• (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.

• Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural.

• Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action.

• To owe.

• To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality.

• (auxiliary) Be obliged to; have an obligation to; indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate or that the speaker has some strong advice but has no authority to enforce it.

• (auxiliary) ought to; speaker's opinion, or advice that an action is correct, beneficial, or desirable.

• (auxiliary) Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate.

• (auxiliary, subjunctive) Used as a variant of the present subjunctive.

• (auxiliary) A variant of would when used with first person subjects.

noun

• A statement of what ought to be the case as opposed to what is the case.

18%9Word describing the obligation of a man to marry his brother's widow
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