Of Owe
See
n. & adv.
See Aught.
imp., p. p., or auxi
Was or were under obligation to pay;
owed.
imp., p. p., or auxi
Owned; possessed.
imp., p. p., or auxi
To be bound in duty or by moral
obligation.
imp., p. p., or auxi
To be necessary, fit, becoming, or
expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used
impersonally or without a subject expressed.
of Owe
Ought
Ought
This due obedience which they ought to the king.
The love and duty I long have ought you.
[He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound.2.
The knight the which that castle ought.3.
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak.4.
To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things?
See
Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.
Usage Examples
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Other Usage ExamplesA leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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