beholdenness

beholdenness
† beholdenness
[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.]

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