archaic pp. of behold
Origin of beholden
ME, past participle of behold obliged to feel grateful; owing thanks; indebted
adjective
The definition of beholden is you owe someone, or are under some moral obligation to repay a favor or kindness.
When your in-laws give you the money to buy a house and keep bringing it up every time they ask if they can come over, this is an example of a time when you might feel beholden.
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adjective
Owing something, such as gratitude, to another; indebted.
Origin of beholden
Middle English biholden past participle of biholden to observe ; see behold .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Sentence Examples
- The latter is far more beholden to the revenue of DVD sales than the latter.
- For his facts a textual critic may, and often must, be beholden to others: but never for his opinions.
- In Iceland to Denmark, and laid the foundations of the famous library and bequest, for which all Icelandic students are so much beholden.
- About 1560 he came to London and was employed as a translator by Reginald or Reyner Wolfe, to whom he says he was "singularly beholden."
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