beholding

Speech parts

1. beholding - Noun

2. beholding - Adjective

3. beholding - Verb

Meaning

of Behold

Obliged; beholden.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

seeing looking viewing watching observing scanning surveying spotting staring regarding studying beholden perceiving glancing noting
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Antonyms

miss covering hiding confusing diminishing concealing
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Hypernyms

perception

Hyponyms

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Examples

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Paul

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' Thornton Wilder

Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Plato

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. John Milton

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell. Thomas Moore

It is God's will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He hath done, but evermore it needeth us to leave the beholding what the Deed shall be. Julian of Norwich

Close letter words and terms

beholden beholdenness beholder beholdingness behoney behoof