BEHOLDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beholding mean? 

• BEHOLDING (noun)
  The noun BEHOLDING has 1 sense:

1. perception by means of the eyes

  Familiarity information: BEHOLDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEHOLDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perception by means of the eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

beholding; seeing; visual perception

Hypernyms ("beholding" is a kind of...):

perception (the process of perceiving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beholding"):

contrast (the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors)

face recognition (the visual perception of familiar faces)

object recognition (the visual perception of familiar objects)

visual space (the visual perception of space)

fusion; optical fusion (the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept)

 Context examples 

Her frantic joy at beholding me again moved me much.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My country, my beloved country! who but a native can tell the delight I took in again beholding thy streams, thy mountains, and, more than all, thy lovely lake!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Have I the pleasure of again beholding Copperfield! and shook me by both hands with the utmost fervour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Not one, however, started with rapturous wonder on beholding her, no whisper of eager inquiry ran round the room, nor was she once called a divinity by anybody.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

What I endured in so beholding her—but I have no right to wound your feelings by attempting to describe it—I have pained you too much already.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There is the country of the Amazons, and the country of the dwarfs, and the country of the fair but evil women who slay with beholding, like the basilisk.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Had his first appearance, or his resemblance to the picture they had just been examining, been insufficient to assure the other two that they now saw Mr. Darcy, the gardener's expression of surprise, on beholding his master, must immediately have told it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I thought you'd never come! cried Amy, dropping the reins and holding out both hands, to the great scandalization of a French mamma, who hastened her daughter's steps, lest she should be demoralized by beholding the free manners of these 'mad English'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That he loved her, on the other hand, was as clear as day, and she consciously delighted in beholding his love-manifestations—the glowing eyes with their tender lights, the trembling hands, and the never failing swarthy flush that flooded darkly under his sunburn.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)