All 5 Uses of
indebted
in
David Copperfield
- She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- We parted with great heartiness on both sides; and when I had seen Traddles to his own door, and was going home alone, I thought, among the other odd and contradictory things I mused upon, that, slippery as Mr. Micawber was, I was probably indebted to some compassionate recollection he retained of me as his boy-lodger, for never having been asked by him for money.†
Chpt 34-36
- 'I propose,' said Mr. Micawber, 'Bills — a convenience to the mercantile world, for which, I believe, we are originally indebted to the Jews, who appear to me to have had a devilish deal too much to do with them ever since — because they are negotiable.†
Chpt 52-54
- He seemed to consider himself hardly less indebted to me, than to Mr. Micawber; which I consider (as I told him) quite a compliment.'†
Chpt 52-54
- Little Mr. Chillip the Doctor, to whose good offices I was indebted in the very first chapter of this history, sat reading a newspaper in the shadow of an opposite corner.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(indebted) to be grateful for a favor; or to owe money; or to be in the position of owing a debt of gratitude