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Uphold v. t. (past & past part. upheld; pres. part. upholding)

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. "The mournful train with groans, and hands upheld. Besought his pity."

To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain. "Honor shall uphold the humble in spirit." "Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone upholds the day."

To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.

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"Uphold" Quotes from Famous Books

... thereupon gave three groans for a paper called the "Times," once respectably edited, now deservedly held as cheap as an epigram of Mr. Carlyle's or a promise to pay dated at Richmond. He showed the monstrous absurdity of England's attacking us for fighting, and for fighting to uphold a principle. "On what shore has not the prow of your ships dashed? What land is there with a name and a people where your banner has not led your soldiers? And when the great resurrection-reveille shall sound, it will muster British soldiers ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various

... and to widen the horizon of knowledge. This is certainly one of the most magnificent opportunities in the history of the Christian Church to establish a powerful and comprehensive agency to help uphold and expand and organize a Christian civilization. It will gain an increasing power ...

— Colleges in America • John Marshall Barker

... action of the government; to confer certain rights on private persons, and to secure to them the undisputed enjoyment of those rights; to enable individual man to maintain whatever independence, strength, and original power he still possesses; to raise him by the side of society at large, and uphold him in that position—these appear to me the main objects of legislators in the ages upon which we are now entering. It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... sons of noblemen in which he will forget it," said the friar bitterly; "where they teach disloyalty to princes and unmake men to make machines—and the mainspring is at Rome. Gentle women are won to believe in them by the subtle polish of those who uphold them, and the marvelous learning by which their teachers fit themselves for office. And among them are men noble of character and true of conscience—but bound, soul and body, by their oath; the system of the Jesuit schools in Venice is for nothing ...

— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

... a dependent people binds itself "to uphold in a friendly manner the sovereignty of that of Rome" (-maiestatem populi Romani comiter conservare-), is certainly the technical appellation of that mildest form of subjection, but it probably did ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

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