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OUGHTS
Noun
oughts
plural of ought
The first decade of a century, such as the 1900s, 2000 to 2009, etc, where the digit in the tens place is zero.
Synonyms
• noughties
Anagrams
• Stough, sought, toughs
Source: Wiktionary
OUGHT
Ought, n. & adv.
Definition: See Aught.
Ought, imp., p. p., or auxiliary. Etym: [Orig. the preterit of the verb to owe. OE. oughte, aughte, ahte, AS. ahte. sq. root110. See Owe.]
1. Was or were under obligation to pay; owed. [Obs.] This due obedience which they ought to the king. Tyndale. The love and duty I long have ought you. Spelman. [He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound. Shak.
2. Owned; possessed. [Obs.] The knight the which that castle ought. Spenser.
3. To be bound in duty or by moral obligation. We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak. Rom. xv. 1.
4. To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed. "Well ought us work." Chaucer. To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume. Milton. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things Luke xxiv. 26.
Note: Ought is now chiefly employed as an auxiliary verb, expressing fitness, expediency, propriety, moral obligation, or the like, in the action or state indicated by the principal verb.
Syn.
– Ought, Should. Both words imply obligation, but ought is the stronger. Should may imply merely an obligation of propriety, expendiency, etc.; ought denotes an obligation of duty.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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