beholds
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Arriving at the high point of the journey, elevation-wise, Ms. Kessler beholds the Cruz de Ferro, an iron cross regarded as an important source of spiritual uplift.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
This experience is reciprocal: the religious believer beholds the deity and is beheld by the deity in turn.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Two-thirds into “Drifts” the narrator realizes she is pregnant, and as she beholds her “exquisitely tender and changing body” her diction stoops slightly into the hackneyed.
From New York Times • May 19, 2020
On the other hand, she receives great kindness and hospitality from nomadic families and beholds, with awe, pristine landscapes and spectacular, star-spangled night skies.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2019
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 Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
