How to pronounce“ought”in English
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Definitions of “ought”
simple past of owe
“There was a certayne lender / which had two detters / the one ought five hondred pence / and the other fifty.”
Alternative spelling of aught; anything
“Is it a small benefit, that I am placed there […] where I see no drunken comessations, no rebellious routs, no violent oppressions, no obscene rejoicings, nor ought else that might either vex or affright my soul?”
Alternative spelling of aught; at all, to any degree.
A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted with what is the case.
“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.”
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