All 4 Uses
indebted
in
Emma, by Jane Austen
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- To Mr. John Knightley was she indebted for her first idea on the subject, for the first start of its possibility.†
Chpt 1.15-16 *
- This was Colonel Campbell, who had very highly regarded Fairfax, as an excellent officer and most deserving young man; and farther, had been indebted to him for such attentions, during a severe camp-fever, as he believed had saved his life.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- The idea of her being indebted to Mrs. Elton for what was called an introduction—of her going into public under the auspices of a friend of Mrs. Elton's—probably some vulgar, dashing widow, who, with the help of a boarder, just made a shift to live!†
Chpt 2.13-14
- Too much indebted to the event for his acquittal.†
Chpt 3.15-16
Definitions:
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(1)
(indebted) to be grateful for a favor; or to owe money; or to be in the position of owing a debt of gratitude
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)