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View synonyms for honor-bound

honor-bound

[ on-er-bound ]

adjective

  1. bound by or placed under the obligation of honor:

    She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.



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Idioms and Phrases

Obliged by one's personal integrity, as in She was honor bound to admit that it was her work and not her sister's . Also see on one's honor .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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