beholding

beholding

1. present participle of behold

beholding (comparative more beholding, superlative most beholding)

1. 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.

   • Robynson (More's Utopia)

     I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father.

   • Fuller

     So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children.

beholding (plural beholdings)

1. The act by which something is beheld; regard; contemplation.
   • Robert Trail

     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.