Beholder vs Beholden - What's the difference?
beholder | beholden |
someone who observes or beholds; an observer or spectator
(fantasy) A fictional monster in roleplaying games, a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth and many eyes on stalks.
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
As a noun beholder
is someone who observes or beholds; an observer or spectator.As an adjective beholden is
obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.beholder
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(en noun)beholden
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*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