Definition of Beholding

1. Noun. Perception by means of the eyes.

Exact synonyms: Seeing, Visual Perception
Generic synonyms: Perception
Specialized synonyms: Contrast, Face Recognition, Object Recognition, Visual Space, Fusion, Optical Fusion
Derivative terms: See

Definition of Beholding

1. a. Obliged; beholden.

2. n. The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld.

Definition of Beholding

1. Verb. (present participle of behold) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beholding

1. behold [v] - See also: behold

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beholding

behindhand
behindhandness
behinds
behither
behn
behoite
behold
beholde
beholden
beholden(p)
beholdenness
beholder
beholders
beholdest
beholdeth
beholding
beholdingness
beholds
behoney
behoof
behoofs
behoovable
behoove
behooved
behooveful
behooves
behoovest
behooveth
behooving
behope

Literary usage of Beholding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"... To mark their doings, them beholding foon, 50 Comes down to fee their city, ere the tower ... beholding ..."

2. Christian Life: Its Hopes, Its Fears, and Its Close : Sermons, Preached by Thomas Arnold (1845)
"And the people stood beholding. IT was our Lord upon the cross whom they were beholding, and they who so beheld Him were the mixed multitude which, ..."

3. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"Differences between our beholding the glory of ... inquire into the difference that is between our beholding of the glory of Christ in this world by faith, ..."

4. The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1883)
"... on my side, of the island— ily horror on beholding the dismal work they were about— I determine on the destruction of the next party, ..."

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