beholdenness

beholdenness
The state or quality of being beholden.

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  • beholdenness — † beholdenness see beholdingness. [Richardson s pretended quotation of beholdenness from Sir P. Sidney is a double error, reprehensibly copied by subsequent dictionaries: the quotation is from R. Beling (1628), and the word is beholdingnesse, q.v …   Useful english dictionary

  • indebtedness — n 1. debts, liabilities; Accounting. debit, deficit, due, score; default, arrears, arrearage; insolvency, bankruptcy, failure. 2. obligation, Obs. beholdenness; accountability, ac countableness, chargeability, answerability, responsibility. 3.… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • thankfulness — n gratitude, gratefulness, appreciation, appreciativeness, thanks; sense of obligation, beholdenness, obligedness, indebtedness; regard, re gards, wishes; acknowledgement, recognition, credit …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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