ought

ought

ought

1. (obsolete) Simple past of owe.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VII:

     There was a certayne lender, which had two detters, the one ought five hondred pence, and the other fifty.

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 182:

     witnesse Aristippus, who being urged with the affection he ought his children, as proceeding from his loynes, began to spit [...].

ought (plural oughts)

1. A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted to what is the case.
   • 1996, Mortimer Jerome Adler, The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense^[1]:

     There are value judgments that are not reducible to observable matters of fact, and there are oughts that cannot be construed as hypothetical and, therefore, cannot be converted into statements of fact.

   • 2004, Jacques Maritain, John G. Trapani, Truth Matters: Essays in Honor of Jacques Maritain^[2]:

     Is there a fallacy involved in deriving an ought from a set of exclusively factual or descriptive premises?

ought

1. Alternative spelling of aught. anything

ought (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of aught. at all, to any degree.

	dovere
	indicating duty or obligation
	indicating advisability or prudence

dovevo

zero

Altri significati:

Alternative spelling of aught. anything

Alternative spelling of aught. at all, to any degree.

Alternative spelling of aught. cipher, zero.

(auxiliary) Indicating advisability or prudence.

(auxiliary) Indicating desirability.

A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted to what is the case.

indicating desirability

(obsolete) Simple past of owe.

(auxiliary) Indicating likelihood or probability.

indicating likelihood or probability

(auxiliary) Indicating duty or obligation.

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