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Word: 'behold' • Extended Annotations



behold

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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of behold

Old English bihaldan "give regard to, hold in view; keep hold of; belong to"
also "keep hold of; belong to"

from be- + haldan, healdan

behold noun beholder noun

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"Witnessing some of these ‘impossibilities’ easily birthed fresh airs of imagination in the minds of the spectators. These airs manifested in different ways, according to the beholder and their individual ability to fathom the previously unfathomable."

"Weird Genius"
The Story of Your Ankh
by Sabina Nore

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~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
classic definition
artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense

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