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BOUNDEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bounden mean?
• BOUNDEN (adjective)
The adjective BOUNDEN has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BOUNDEN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Morally obligatory
Context example:
my bounden duty
Similar:
obligatory (morally or legally constraining or binding)
Context examples
Ned, being in college, of course put on all the airs which freshmen think it their bounden duty to assume.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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"He who eats holy bread has to deserve it." (Corsican proverb)