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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.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is bounden a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, bounden is tagged as adjective.
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