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Definition of Ought

Ought See Aught. Was or were under obligation to pay; owed. Owned; possessed. To be bound in duty or by moral obligation. To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed. of Owe Related Definitions: Aught, Be, Becoming, Behoove, Bound, By, Duty, Expedient, Expressed, Fit, Formerly, Impersonally, In, Moral, Necessary, Obligation, Of, Or, Owe, Owed, Owned, Pay, Possessed, See, Sense, Sometimes, Subject, This, To, Under, Used, Was, Were, Without

Ought Quotations The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher I am certainly an ought and not a must. E. M. Forster One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' Victor Hugo 640K ought to be enough for anybody. Bill Gates

Ought Translations ought in German is sollte ought in Italian is dovevo

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