Bounden

Word BOUNDEN
Character 7
Hyphenation bound en
Pronunciations /ˈbaʊnd(ə)n/

Definitions and meanings of "Bounden"

What do we mean by bounden?

Obligatory. adjective

Being under obligation; obliged. adjective

Obliged; bound, or under obligation; beholden.

Appointed; indispensable; obligatory.

In both senses archaic, its only present common use being in the phrase bounden duty.

Bound; fastened by bonds. past participle

Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden. past participle

Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding. past participle

Under an obligation; obliged (to do something) adjective

Morally obligatory adjective

To tie; to confine by any ligature.

To cohere or stick together in a mass.

To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

To exert a binding or restraining influence.

To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.

To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.

To couple.

To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.

To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.

To place under legal obligation to serve.

To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.

To cover, as with a bandage.

To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.

To put together in a cover, as of books.

To make two or more elements stick together.

To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.

To complain; to whine about something.

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The word "bounden" in example sentences

He feels it is his bounden duty to resurrect the ancient spirit of the Church and to deliver its message to the masters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr Virgo made it clear to the editor that it was his bounden duty to pass any information he might receive notifying the whereabouts of Biggs to police and this the editor said he would be happy to do... ❋ Unknown (2011)

No matter how much whisky was poured down his neck, O'Brien could not be brought to realize that it was his bounden and friendly duty to sell his claim. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If tomorrow we multiplied our effort to educate the next generation ten-fold, we should but begin our bounden duty. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

On the transatlantic crossing homeward, he conversed with an American Catholic priest who said, “My country is just mad on this subject of drink and I have felt it my bounden duty as a priest to teach my flock how to make good honest liquor.” ❋ MAX WATMAN (2010)

If he manages to use these three 'Bs' to bamboozle a credulous electorate into voting him back into power it will be the bounden duty of the said Establishment to remove him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1963, less than 3 months after Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” he wrote in a column, “[It is] clearly the bounden duty of all intelligent Americans to proclaim and practice bigotry.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Shall consider it my bounden duty to go by your instructions as best as I can. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is the bounden duty of Australia A teams above all else to cut the Poms down to size before the big stuff starts, and just for a while mid-innings today, when England got the wobbles and lost a trio of wickets for 13 runs while still a hundred or so behind the hosts, it looked as if they might manage it once more. ❋ Mike Selvey In Hobart (2010)

It's your bounden duty to tell a police officer everything. ❋ Douglas Light (2010)

May it please your good Lordship, That albeit we attend here on my Lady Elizabeth's Grace, our Mistress ... we do not forget our most bounden Duty, nor yet our Readiness in Words and Deeds to serve her Highness [Queen Mary] by all the Ways and Means that may stand in Us, both from her Grace, our Mistress, and of our own Parts also .. .166 ❋ Unknown (2008)

Let them continually bear in mind that is it their bounden duty to so comport themselves in public, as to give the lie to those aspersions cast upon the entire race ... because of the forward, vulgar and pompous demeanor of a few individuals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hence, for them to speak and to write publicly is a bounden duty. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If this administration believes it has a bounden duty to protect us from our own bad decisions by taking over large portions of health insurance, and thus care, they might spare a thought to protect us from the bad decisions of the worst members of government. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, respect and trust went out the window years and ages ago, so it's his bounden duty to restore that ... or struggle and perhaps fail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A sincere and devout minister of the gospel might possibly see it as his bounden duty to preach and advertise. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you regard yourself as a responsible moral agent at all then not only "can you say ... they are wrong ..." - sometimes you have a bounden duty to do so! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet shrink not from the task, because, as is my bounden duty, I do not disguise from you its difficulties. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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