beholding
English
Verb
beholding
Adjective
beholding (comparative more beholding, superlative most beholding)
- Obsolete form of beholden.
- 1612, Shakespeare, Henry VIII, V, 5
- 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.
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- I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father.
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- So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children.
- 1612, Shakespeare, Henry VIII, V, 5
Noun
beholding (plural beholdings)
- The act by which something is beheld; regard; contemplation.
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- 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.
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