Idioms
See bounden in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya/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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