bounden

• He seemed to see it as his bounden duty to dispose of as much of his father's wealth as he could in the pursuit of personal pleasure with no regard whatsoever for the rights and comforts of others. —  Reginald Hill
• That is, maybe at least a part of the more-or-less universal outrage at THAT horror REALLY should be directed at "our OWN" murderers and torturers --- who now come along and manage the sheer Chutzpah to argue that "we" have some kind of bounden obligation to "support" them on the things they have done, because THEY were supposedly "protecting" "us"! —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
• That is, maybe at least a part of the more-or-less universal outrage at THAT horror REALLY should be directed at "our OWN" murderers and torturers --- who now come along and muster the Chutzpah to argue that "we" have some kind of bounden obligation to "support" them on the things they have done, because THEY were supposedly "protecting" "us"! —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
• And we, our wives and poor children shall ever pray to God, as our bounden duty is, to give you in this worlde all increase of happines, and to crowne you in the worlde to come w^{th} immortall glorye. —  Colonial Records of Virginia
• Midd., stationer, in the sum of forty pounds; The condition of the recognizance being "that whereas the above-bounden John Wolf hath begun to erect and build a playhouse in Nightingale Lane near East Smithfield aforesaid, contrary to Her Majesty's proclamation and orders set down in Her Highness's Court of Starchamber. —  Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration

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