What are the opposite words for be beholden?

"Be beholden" is a phrase that refers to being indebted or thankful to someone. Its antonyms can include words like liberated, independent, free, unencumbered, autonomous, self-sufficient, and self-reliant. These words imply a sense of freedom, autonomy, and self-determination, where one is no longer bound or limited by obligations or debt owed to others. To be liberated from beholden-ness means to have the power to choose one's own path and destiny without being influenced by external factors. Thus, the antonyms to "be beholden" represent a sense of empowerment and autonomy that many aspire to achieve in life.

What are the antonyms for Be beholden?

• v.

  • owe
  • pay
  ,
  • resolve
  ,
  • settle
  .

Famous quotes with Be beholden

• It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

  Michel de Montaigne
• All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

  Robert Frost
• In this we shall see verily the cause of all things that He hath done; and evermore we shall see the cause of all things that He hath suffered. And the bliss and the fulfilling shall be so deep and so high that, for wonder and marvel, all creatures shall have to God so great reverent dread, overpassing that which hath been seen and felt before, that the pillars of heaven shall tremble and quake. But this manner of trembling and dread shall have no pain; but it belongeth to the worthy might of God thus to be beholden by His creatures, in great dread trembling and quaking for meekness of joy, marvelling at the greatness of God the Maker and at the littleness of all that is made. For the beholding of this maketh the creature marvellously meek and mild. Wherefore God willeth — and also it belongeth to us, both in nature and grace — that we wit and know of this, desiring this sight and this working; for it leadeth us in right way, and keepeth us in true life, and oneth us to God. And as good as God is, so great He is; and as much as it belongeth to His goodness to be loved, so much it belongeth to His greatness to be dreaded. For this reverent dread is the fair courtesy that is in Heaven afore God’s face. And as much as He shall then be known and loved overpassing that He is now, in so much He shall be dreaded overpassing that He is now. Wherefore it behoveth needs to be that all Heaven and earth shall tremble and quake when the pillars shall tremble and quake.

  Julian of Norwich

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