Definition of "uphold"

uphold

/ˌʌpˈhəʊld/

verb
third-person singular simple present upholds, present participle upholding, simple past upheld, past participle upheld or (archaic) upholden
1. To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
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  The mournful train/ Echoed her grief, [...]/ With groans, and hands upheld, to move his mind, /Besought his pity to their helpless kind
  1899, John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer, Percival Chubb, Dryden's Palamon and Arcite‎, page 5
2. To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
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  A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
  1769, The King James Bible, Proverbs 29:23
  That misbegotten devil, Falconbridge, /In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.
  1623, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, Act V, Scene iv
  Uttering such broken ejaculations Mrs. Hart burst into a passion of tears, and only Lord Chetwynde's strong arms prevented her from falling. / He upheld her.
  1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009
  Similarly, both the Government and the EU argued at the time the deal was agreed that they were upholding the Good Friday Agreement by implementing the Protocol.
  Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom?
3. To support by approval or encouragement, to confirm (something which has been questioned)
  Quotations
  but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.
  1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 18

Definition of "uphold"

uphold

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