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单词 rule-bound
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rule-boundadj.

Brit. /ˈruːlbaʊnd/, U.S. /ˈrulˌbaʊnd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rule n.1, bound adj.2
Etymology: < rule n.1 + bound adj.2
Limited or constricted by rules.
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a1628 F. Greville Treat. Humane Learning lxxvi, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 37 Since how should Water rise aboue her fountaine? Or spirits rule-bound see beyond that light?
1824 S. E. Brydges Lett. on Byron xxxiii. 330 Cold, tame, rule-bound virtue is the least beneficial to society.
1838 Amer. Med. Intelligencer 16 Apr. 21 The young rule-bound practitioner, who has allowed ‘forty hours to elapse after the rupture of the membranes, before using instruments’.
1899 Nation 2 Feb. 84/1 The spirit of English poetry, except in its most barren, rule-bound periods, has led it to seek variety.
1905 W. James in McClure's Mag. May 9/1 You ask for a free man, and these utopias give you an ‘interchangeable part’, with a fixed number, in a rule-bound organism.
1979 Dædalus Summer 9 Rule-bound, conventional, and traditional ethics continue to hold their own.
1991 P. Slater Dream Deferred i. i. 17 Soldiers driven mechanically to their deaths by rule-bound generals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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