bounden

Example Sentences

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“There is a bounden duty on the government to provide basic amenities to the citizens of the country.”

From New York Times

Yet the penguins, seals, sea-lions, and sea-elephants which contrived to maintain a hold on life in those inhospitable regions represent types of animal life which it was our bounden duty to preserve.

From Nature

This prompted 300 other citizens to complain: “We feel it our bounden duty to protest and to express our utter disapprobation of the unexpected and unnecessary violence by which the assembly was dispersed.”

From The Guardian

They are trolling for votes, their bounden duty, and they are fishing in promising waters.

From Washington Times

It would be his bounden duty to turn Hannah over to the law.

From Literature