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duty bound to

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duty bound to do something
required to do something. Investigators are duty bound to find out what happened and make a report.
See also: bound, duty

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Your feelings are an affair of your own conscience; but I am in duty bound to you, to myself, and to God, to point out to you your duties.
Presently the trader coughed in an embarrassed manner as though there was something on his mind he felt in duty bound to say, but hated to.
Joe considered himself in duty bound to taste the latter species of strong beer, but his palate, although accustomed to gin and whiskey, could not withstand the strength of the new beverage, and he had to make a horrible grimace, which his dusky friends took to be a benevolent smile.
 
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