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be⋅hold⋅en

[bi-hohl-duhn]
–adjective
obligated; indebted: a man beholden to no one.

Origin:
1300–50; ME, adj. use of beholden, old ptp. of behold


obliged, bound, grateful, liable.
be·hold·en   (bĭ-hōl'dən)   
adj.  Owing something, such as gratitude, to another; indebted.

[Middle English biholden, past participle of biholden, to observe; see behold.]

Beholden

Be*hold"en\, p. a. [Old p. p. of behold, used in the primitive sense of the simple verb hold.] Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.

But being so beholden to the Prince. --Tennyson.
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