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Definition of honour-bound in English: honour-boundadjectiveˈɒnəbaʊnd with infinitive Morally obliged to do something. the state is honour-bound to listen and act I feel honour-bound to pay this money Example sentencesExamples - I am launching my book on the 25th and I am honor-bound to Simon and Schuster not to comment on the book before that date.
- Our partnership has rules that we are both honor-bound to follow.
- If your father were to insist I marry you, I would agree that I am honour-bound to do so and I would comply.
- We have a strict code of ethics which we are honor-bound to follow.
- Even though there are five officials presiding over a fencing contest, fencers are still honour-bound to acknowledge all hits they receive.
- Are you then honour-bound to automatically defend your mates?
- In a period when even small-scale collectors often felt honor-bound to lend paintings to public exhibitions, period exhibition records document almost no collecting activity by any member of the Stevens family.
- I told them I considered myself honor-bound by what I had said to the sergeant that night, and would not transmit anything without his agreement.
- Although she wanted to marry him, she didn't want him to feel honor-bound to marry her if there was someone else he loved.
- Since he was vaguely right, I now feel honor-bound to apologize to my buddy, here on a weblog that I'm certain he'll never see.
- Just because you hate the shirt your auntie gave you, it does not mean the shop is honour-bound to take it back.
- One article alone brought him 300 letters from members of the public and he felt honour-bound to reply to all of them.
- Placed in that situation I have felt honour-bound to reply frankly and at some length.
- If he possessed evidence of wrongdoing, he was honor-bound to take that to a grand jury and secure an indictment.
- He contended that, as a loyal servant of the crown, he had been honor-bound to rid the country of a detestable tyrant who had perverted French royal institutions.
- I feel honor-bound to correct the attribution from this day forward when I pass it on.
- It was a cheap election ploy that he felt honour-bound to implement.
- I know full well that Anne will feel honour-bound to comply with her mother's wishes.
- I say to you that you are honour-bound, from the point of view of your reputation, to give that ruling.
- It's hard work, and frustrating, to try and keep such students in the loop, but it's something I feel honour-bound to do.
Synonyms indebted, obligated, under an obligation, obliged, bound, duty-bound
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