Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for O-BLI'GING
O-BLI'GING, a. [Fr. obligeant.]
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. Addison.
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