Beholden vs Beheld - What's the difference?
beholden | beheld |
Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.
*{{quote-news, year=2012
, date=June 26
, author=Genevieve Koski
, title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe
, work=The Onion AV Club
(behold)
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To see, or to look at.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
As an adjective beholden
is obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.As a verb beheld is
(behold).beholden
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Alternative forms
*beholdingAdjective
(-)- From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.
citation, page= , passage=But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}} English adjectives ending in -en