beheld in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for beheld in the English»French Dictionary

beheld [Brit bɪˈhɛld, Am bɪˈhɛld] pret pp

beheld → behold

See also behold

behold <pret, pp beheld> [Brit bɪˈhəʊld, Am bəˈhoʊld] VB trans liter or hum

behold

voir

it was a wonder to behold

c'était un spectacle merveilleux

behold <pret, pp beheld> [Brit bɪˈhəʊld, Am bəˈhoʊld] VB trans liter or hum

behold

voir

it was a wonder to behold

c'était un spectacle merveilleux

See also lo

lo [Brit ləʊ, Am loʊ] INTERJ liter a. lo and behold

lo

voilà

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his dancing is a joy to behold

c'est un plaisir de le regarder danser

it was a marvel to behold

c'était merveilleux à voir

a sight to behold

un spectacle à voir

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Should that happen, the soul is incarnated into one of nine kinds of person, according to how much truth it beheld.

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The scenery is beautiful and in some places and some points of view the grandest that the eye ever beheld.

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I had not yet beheld such a creature.

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We beheld water falling in cascades.

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Hearing a child cry, she beheld a casket in the reeds.

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It is directly beheld (intuited) by reason, but in order to be of use it has to be reflected on, and this by means of language.

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Note that it logically follows that all photography distorts the image beheld by the eye because the film surface is flat in the manner of the picture plane.

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While this happened, she beheld the threefold world perfectly and clearly.

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So the other elders beheld the damage and no one was fooled.

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For three years previous to his death, which occurred in 1448, beheld the post of superior of that convent.

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