indebtedness
Americannoun
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the state of being indebted
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the total of a person's debts
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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 is acknowledged to Prof. Emory Halloway of Brooklyn, New York, for valuable suggestions.
From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Gilchrist, Anne Burrows
Indebtedness to oxygen The chemist may repay, But not the obligation To electricity.
From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily
Indebtedness of the author to S. Wagner, Esq.,
From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)
"Planter Indebtedness and the Coming of the Revolution in Virginia."
From The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 by Virginia. History, Government, and Geography Service
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