beholding

Obsolete form of beholden.

I thank ye all. To you, my good lord mayor, And your good brethren, I am much beholding; I have received much honour by your presence, And ye shall find me thankful.

I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father.

The act by which something is beheld; regard; contemplation.

a. 1847, Robert Traill, a sermon But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.