- present tense form of behold (3rd person singular).
beholds
Example Sentences
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“For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
This experience is reciprocal: the religious believer beholds the deity and is beheld by the deity in turn.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Into the space once taken up by monthly pains and forbidden longings arrive mystical visions in which she beholds the Virgin Mary, first as virgin and then as mother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
Theologically speaking, pride turns itself inward; it beholds the self and deems it sufficient.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2018
Religion consists herein, that man in his own person, with his own spiritual eye, immediately beholds and possesses God.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
