obliging

• IPA^(key): /əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪdʒɪŋ
• Hyphenation: ob‧lig‧ing

obliging (comparative more obliging, superlative most obliging)

1. Happy and ready to do favours for others.

• accommodating, willing

• obligingly
• obligingness

obliging

1. present participle and gerund of oblige

obliging (plural obligings)

1. The imposition of an obligation.
   • 1840, Alexander MacDonald, Summary of the Catholic Religion:

     Many were the finings, and excommunications, and the obligings to do penances, that took place at this time.