beholds
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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
In the aria, Sara, Duchess of Nottingham, is hiding her tears from everyone but the audience as she beholds in the tragic tale of the Fair Rosamund a reflection of her own lovelorn grief.
From Washington Post • May 6, 2021
Then he felt as the weary bewildered traveller, who in the thick forest beholds the last gleam of the descending sun.
From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig