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  • adjective Bound by an oath.

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Examples

  • Sarah Avery 5:30 pm: The tradition I practice in has some parts that are oathbound, so I chose to write eclectic-Pagan characters.

    Transcript: Writing Paganism and Non-Christian Religions « Coyote Con 2010

  • MeredithHolmes 5:28 pm: You can intimate things about the oathbound parts of the tradition, sort of step lightly.

    Transcript: Writing Paganism and Non-Christian Religions « Coyote Con 2010

  • A lot of it is oathbound in Wicca, or simply not communicable in a meaningful sense in the GD.

    catpewk Diary Entry catpewk 2003

  • She was not pleased, having to stumble around in the dark and freezing rain to find the tent she shared with her partner and oathbound sister, the White Winds sorceress, Kethry.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • So, too, the moral protest against oathbound secret societies, - the uncompromising hostility to the liquor traffic and to any form of legislative approval of it, and above all, the opposition to divisions in the church of

    Autobiography of John G. Fee: Berea, Kentucky 1891

  • MeredithHolmes 5:27 pm: Well, when i’ve written characters in oathbound traditions, for example, there’s things that I as a writer won’t know since I’m not a member.

    Transcript: Writing Paganism and Non-Christian Religions « Coyote Con 2010

  • The Maimed Witches of Ang’arta were as oathbound as Celestia’s Blessed; they could not lie or renege on their word, once it was given, and Severine had given hers.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • "Had a pair of oathbound mercenaries in my company," he replied, "That was before I took the Wheel, of course.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • "Not true," Tarma interrupted her, "She accepted you when you oathbound yourself to me as bloodsib.

    The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988

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