beholding
noun
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adj
- Obsolete form of beholden.
“I thank ye all. To you, my good lord mayor, And your good brethren, I am much beholding; I have received much honour by your presence, And ye shall find me thankful.”
“I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father.”
noun
- The act by which something is beheld; regard; contemplation.
“a. 1847, Robert Traill, a sermon But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of behold