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 to oxygen The chemist may repay, But not the obligation To electricity.
From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series by Todd, Mabel Loomis
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
"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
Bonded Indebtedness April 30th, 1888 $ 572,050 Bonds issued since for Sanitary Sewerage 150,000 Total Bonded Indebtedness $722,050 ASSETS.
From Montgomery, the Capital City of Alabama Her Resources and Advantages by Anonymous
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