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Definition: Beholding |
BeholdingNoun1. Perception by means of the eyes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beholding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: BeholdingSynonyms: seeing (n), visual perception (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Beholding |
| English words defined with "beholding": dazzled ♦ Omnispective ♦ Spectatorship. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beholding": Astronomer of Dublin ♦ Christ ♦ Misham. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At the depth of shadow to which he had already descended, ecstasy was still possible to him while beholding Cosette. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Then he is more beholding to you than I. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I chiefly fed my eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We are amused at beholding the costume of Henry VIII, or Queen Elizabeth, as much as if it was that of the King and Queen of the Cannibal Islands. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Beholding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Beholding" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "beholding". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Punites | N/A | Biblical | Beholding |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "beholding": all-beholding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "beholding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | erblickend (seeing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | cur my ner (behold, lo). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eholdingbay feuchainn. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | paiti-dîti. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En panti topw ofqalmoi kuriou skopeuousin kakouV te kai agaqouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | In omni loco oculi Domini contemplantur malos et bonos |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | In alle place the eyen of the Lord beholden goode men, and euele. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang mga mata ni Jehova anaa sa tanang dapit, Nga nagabantay ibabaw sa dautan ug sa maayo. |
| Chinese | 耶 ' 華 的 眼 目 、 無 處 不 在 ． 惡 人 善 人 、 他 都 ' 察 。 |
| Croatian | Oèi su Jahvine na svakome mjestu i budno motre i zle i dobre. |
| Danish | Alle Vegne er HERRENs Øjne, de udspejder onde og gode. |
| Dutch | De ogen des HEEREN zijn in alle plaatsen, beschouwende de kwaden en de goeden. |
| Finnish | Herran silmät ovat joka paikassa; ne vartioitsevat hyviä ja pahoja. |
| French | Les yeux de l`Éternel sont en tout lieu, Observant les méchants et les bons. |
| German | Die Augen des HERRN schauen an allen Orten beide, die Bösen und die Frommen. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Je Seyè a toupatou, l'ap veye tout moun, bon kou mechan. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | TUHAN melihat semua yang terjadi di segala tempat; Ia memperhatikan semua yang baik dan yang jahat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Mata Tuhan adalah atas segala tempat sambil memandang akan orang jahat dan akan orang baik. |
| Italian | In ogni luogo sono gli occhi del Signore, scrutano i malvagi e i buoni. |
| Maori | ¶ Kei nga wahi katoa nga kanohi o Ihowa, e titiro ana ki te hunga kino, ki te hunga pai. |
| Norwegian | Herrens øine er allesteds, de ser både efter onde og efter gode. |
| Portuguese | Os olhos do Senhor estão em todo lugar, vigiando os maus e os bons. |
| Rumanian | Ochii Domnului sknt kn orice loc, ei vqd pe cei rqi wi pe cei buni. - |
| Russian | оБ ЧУСЛПН НЕУФЕ ПЮЙ зПУ П"ОЙ: ПОЙ ЧЙ"СФ ЪМЩИ Й "П'ТЩИ. |
| Spanish | Los ojos de Jehovah están en todo lugar, mirando a los malos y a los buenos. |
| Ukrainian | ¶ Очі "осподні на кожному місці, позирають на злих та на добрих. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Beholding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: befolding, beholdynge, Beroldingen, biholdyng. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beholding" (pronounced buhō"lding) |
| 6 | -h ō" l d i ng | holding, upholding, withholding. |
| 5 | -ō" l d i ng | folding, molding, moulding, scolding, unfolding. |
| 4 | -l d i ng | balding, building, Fielding, gilding, handholding, heralding, landholding, Melding, nonbuilding, overbuilding, rebuilding, scaffolding, scalding, shielding, shipbuilding, unyielding, welding, wielding, Wilding, yielding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, banding, bedding, beheading, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, finding, flooding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handing, heading, heeding, herding, hiding, hoarding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unloading, unwinding, upgrading, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, wending, winding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-g-h-i-l-n-o" | |
-2 letters: glenoid, holding, ignoble, obliged. | |
-3 letters: behind, behold, belong, bilged, bindle, binged, biogen, blonde, boding, boiled, bolide, bonged, dingle, doling, dongle, eloign, engild, globed, globin, goblin, golden, hinged, hoeing, hoiden, holden, holing, hondle, honied, indole, legion, longed, nighed, oblige. | |
-4 letters: begin, being, bield, bilge, binge, bingo, blend, blind, blond, bogie, bogle, boing, boned, deign. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 68 6F 6C 64 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .... --- .-.. -.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e h o l d i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0068 006F 006C 0064 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367174817870758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Derived from 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Bible Trace 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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