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
Theologically speaking, pride turns itself inward; it beholds the self and deems it sufficient.
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2018
But God beholds the man's heart, and not his possessions.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham