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Uphold

verb

(past & past part. upheld; pres. part. upholding)

Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last. Synonyms: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve. "Continue the family tradition" , "Carry on the old traditions" Antonym: discontinue.

Stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals.

Support against an opponent. Synonym: maintain.

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"Uphold" Quotes from Famous Books

... about that Menzies was chosen to uphold the house in the Fives Courts. Sheen was not surprised. But it was not pleasant. He was certainly having bad luck in his attempts to do something for the house. Perhaps if he won the Gotford they might show a little enthusiasm. The Gotford always caused a good ...

— The White Feather • P. G. Wodehouse

... serve. But you should cultivate procedure of a type more urbane. Let your very reasonableness be the most potent weapon you wield. To this end you should form the habit of looking for good points on both sides of a question. As a still further precaution against contentiousness you should uphold the two ...

— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... England and in Virginia that that they were chiefly to be found. In the great southern province they were headed by Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and by their means the popular party in Virginia were led to deplore the massacre at Boston, and to uphold that city as a new Sparta and the seat of liberty. The assembly of Virginia, in a petition or remonstrance to his majesty, ventured to express their strong dissatisfaction at Lord North's imperfect Repeal Act, and their deep affliction ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... the shining exceptions that are produced in any system, no matter how false its premises or how decadent it may become, to uphold faith in the intrinsic soundness of human nature, the vow of chastity was never much more than a myth. Through the tremendous influence exerted over a fanatically religious people, who implicitly followed the teachings of ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... Unwieldy multepeza, nemanregebla. Unwillingly kontrauxvole, malbonvole. Unwise malsagxa. Unwittingly senintenca. Unwonted nekutima. Unworthy malinda. Unyoke maljungi. Up (adv.) supre. Upbraid mallauxdi, riprocxi. Uphill (fig.) malfacila. Uphill, to go supreniri. Uphold subteni. Upholsterer meblisto, meblofaristo. Uplift altlevi. Upon (prep.) sur. Upper (adj.) plisupra. Uppermost (adj.) la plej supra. Upright (erect) vertikala, rekta. Upright (honest) honesta. Upright (post) fosto. Uprightly rekte, honeste. Uprightness rekteco, honesteco. ...

— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

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