bounden

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊnd(ə)n/ / /ˈbaʊndən/

Etymology: From bound + -en, the archaic past participle of bind.

Now chiefly in "bounden duty": made obligatory; binding.
“And although we be vnworthy (through our manyfolde ſynnes) to offre vnto thee any Sacryfice: Yet we beſeche thee to accepte thys our bounden duetie and ſeruice: and commande theſe our prayers and ſupplicacions, by the Miniſtery of thy holy Angels, to be brought vp into thy holy Tabernacle before the ſyght of thy dyuine maieſtie: […]”
“Your moſt bounden and devoted friend and ſervant of all men living, Fr. Bacon, C.S.”
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.”

Etymology: From bound + -en, the archaic past participle of bind.

past participle of bind.
past participle of bind.
“I am much bounden to your Maieſty.”
“In the concluding whereof Sir Thomas More so worthily handled himself, procuring in our league far more benefits unto this realm, than at that time, by the king or his council was thought possible to be compassed, that for his good service in that voyage, the king, when he after made him Lord Chancellor, caused the Duke of Norfolk openly to declare to the people, as you shall hear hereafter more at large, how much all England was bounden unto him.”