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 to many lists is obvious, particularly to that of the Drama League and the National Council of Teachers of English, and that of Professor Pence in the "Illinois Bulletin."

From The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays by Leonard, Sterling Andrus

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

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series by Todd, Mabel Loomis

Indebtedness of the seven principal nations engaged in the European war has crossed $75,000,000,000.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly

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