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bounden

UK /ˈbaʊnd(ə)n/US /ˈbaʊndən/

adjective 2
verb 2
forms 2

adjective2

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(old-fashioned) Now chiefly in "bounden duty": made obligatory; binding.
- Your most bounden and devoted friend and servant of all men living, Fr. Bacon, C.S. — 1616
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(no longer used) Bound.
- ...and that the world should owe thanke therof to you, to whom my husband the authour of it was for good receyued of you, most dutiefully bounden. — 1570

verb2

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(no longer used, rare) To be obliged; to be under a duty or obligation (to do something).
- I am much bounden to your Maiesty. — 1596
(no longer used, rare) past participle of bind.

forms

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