| 单词 |
beholdingness |
| 释义 |
† beˈholdingness Obs. [f. prec. + -ness.] The condition of being beholden to any one; obligation, indebtedness; (in late use) dependence.
1580Sidney Arcadia iii. 253 All other meanes, that might either establish a beholdingnes, or at least awake a kindnesse. 1602Carew Cornwall 60 b, My love to vertue, and not any particular beholdingnes, hath expressed this my testimony. 1628R[ichard] B[eling] Sidney's Arcadia vi. (1628–38) 492 Leonatus the yong king of Pontus (who had bin there to acknowledge his beholdingnesse to them). 1658Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 200 That servile condition..beholdingness or dependance on the elder [brother]. |

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