beholding
verb
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To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon.
To look.
To contemplate.
adjective
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Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; indebted, obliged.
Example: From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.
Bound by external expectations, such as fashion or morality.
noun
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The act by which something is beheld; regard; contemplation.