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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disoblige

Disoblige \Dis`o*blige"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disobliged; p. pr. & vb. n. Disobliging.] [Pref. dis- + oblige: cf. F. d['e]sobliger.]

  1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.

    Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them.
    --South.

    My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige.
    --Addison.

  2. To release from obligation. [Obs.]

    Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disoblige

c.1600, "to free from obligation;" 1630s, "to refuse to oblige," from French désobliger (c.1300), from des- (see dis-) + Latin obligare (see oblige). Related: Disobliged; disobliging.

Wiktionary
disoblige

vb. (context British English) Not to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.

WordNet
disoblige

  1. v. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..." [syn: trouble, put out, inconvenience, discommode, incommode, bother]

  2. ignore someone's wishes [ant: oblige]

Usage examples of "disoblige".

Thwackum, who, for reasons before-mentioned, durst not venture at disobliging the lady, was almost choaked with indignation.

However, if I was not greatly disobliged by a conduct of which I had discovered the design, I smarted very severely for it.

The common method in such cases is this: as soon as a foreign potentate enters into a province, those who are weaker or disobliged join themselves with him out of emulation and animosity to those who are above them, insomuch that in respect of these inferior lords, no pains is to be omitted that may gain them.

But he was no sooner in Milan but he began to prevaricate and send supplies to Pope Alexander to put him in possession of Romagna, not considering that thereby he weakened himself and disobliged his friends who had thrown themselves into his arms, and aggrandized the Church by adding to its spiritual authority (which was so formidable before) so great a proportion of temporal.

Those cardinals which he had disobliged were, among others, the cardinals of St.