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Definition
to be grateful for a favor; or to owe money; or to be in the position of owing a debt of gratitude
- It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose — to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it — to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.Preface (50% in)
- The day will close almost before you are aware it has begun; and you are indebted to no one for helping you to get rid of one vacant moment: you have had to seek no one's company, conversation, sympathy, forbearance; you have lived, in short, as an independent being ought to do.Chapter 21 (78% in)
There are no more uses of "indebted" in Jane Eyre.
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