bounden

Example Sentences

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Yet the penguins, seals, sea-lions, and sea-elephants which contrived to maintain a hold on life in those inhospitable regions represent types of animal life which it was our bounden duty to preserve.

From Nature

This prompted 300 other citizens to complain: “We feel it our bounden duty to protest and to express our utter disapprobation of the unexpected and unnecessary violence by which the assembly was dispersed.”

From The Guardian

They are trolling for votes, their bounden duty, and they are fishing in promising waters.

From Washington Times

These pages feature a number of unusual words and phrases – "exposed", "leauened", "imitator", "ouerseen", "most bounden" – most of which are unfamiliar to Jonson or his contemporaries, but which are familiar to Florio.

From The Guardian

Jurors receive instructions that they are bounden by the law to decree execution – to do anything else would be an abrogation of its letter and spirit.

From The Guardian