indebtedness

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Indebtedness to a place thus entails neither blind praise nor arrogance about how great it is but a determination to see that it lives up to its potential and its promise.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2018

Indebtedness is the great curse of Indian agriculture, and the peasant's chief necessity is cheap credit obtained on a system that will not cause him to sink deeper into the mire.

From Indian Unrest by Chirol, Valentine, Sir

Indebtedness to oxygen    The chemist may repay, But not the obligation    To electricity.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily

Indebtedness of the author to S. Wagner, Esq.,

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)

Indebtedness is acknowledged also to sundry Dominion Government records, to the researches of Herbert N. Casson and to the press and various Provincial Departments of Agriculture for the use of their files.

From Deep Furrows by Moorhouse, Hopkins