Also Inflected form of behold
beholden
be·hol·den
adjective
1.
under a moral obligation to someone
Origin
From Middle English biholden (“beholden, obligated”), past participle of biholden (“to behold, look at”, modern behold), though that verb does not mean "to bind, obligate".
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