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Something that you feel you must do
- something that you feel you must do: She felt that it was her bounden duty to tell the police about the incident.
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something that you feel you must do: She felt that it was her bounden duty to tell the police about the incident. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Duty, obligation and responsibility. accountable. accountable to someone. accountably. answer for something phrasal verb. buck.
bounden duty in British English. (ˈbaʊndənˈdjuːtɪ ) noun. formal. duty one has a moral obligation to perform. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
bound·en. (boun′dən) adj. 1. Obligatory: their bounden duty. 2. Archaic Being under obligation; obliged. [Middle English, past participle of binden, to bind, from Old English bindan; see bind.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
bounden duty. old-fashioned Some duty or task one feels obligated to perform or undertake. She considered it her bounden duty to expose the corruption in her company. The president said in his address that the country has a bounden duty to help other nations in need.
It is the bounden duty of those who live together to cultivate the sunny side of life. In fact I am beginning to ask whether it be not my bounden duty to stop corresponding with my friends altogether. Bounden definition: obligatory; compulsory. See examples of BOUNDEN used in a sentence.
adjective. /ˈbaʊndən/ Idioms. a/your bounden duty. (old-fashioned, formal) something that you feel you must do; a responsibility which cannot be ignored. He felt it was his bounden duty to tell the police what he knew. We have a bounden duty to respond to this call for help. Topics Permission and obligation c2. Want to learn more?
Overview. bounden duty, one's. Quick Reference. A responsibility regarded by oneself and others as obligatory. Bounden as the past participle of bind is now archaic in all contexts and seldom found except in this phrase. From: bounden duty, one's in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable » Reference entries.
