beholding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of behold

adj

1. (alt-of, obsolete)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.”

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

noun

1. 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.”