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verb

Withhold v. t. (past withheld; past part. withheld, obs. or archaic withholden; pres. part. withholding)

To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. "Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him."

To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. "Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good."

To keep; to maintain; to retain. (Obs.) "To withhold it the more easily in heart."

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Etymology of 'Withhold'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Withhold" Quotes from Famous Books

... however, to comply with the demands of the community. If the state is in need of money, a town can neither give nor withhold the supplies. If the state projects a road, the township cannot refuse to let it cross its territory; if a police regulation is made by the state, it must be enforced by the town. A uniform system of instruction is organised all ...

— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al

... Trifles great effects produce, Both of pleasure and of use; Trifles often turn the scale, When in love or law we fail; Trifles to the great commend, Trifles make proud beauty bend; Trifles prompt the poet's strain, Trifles oft distract the brain; Trifles, trifles more or less, Give us, or withhold success; Trifles, when we hope, can cheer, Trifles smite us when we fear: All the flames that lovers know, Trifles quench ...

— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis

... have a right to demand an answer. If that answer is satisfactory, well and good. If it is not satisfactory, or if no answer be supplied at all, I would then propose to ask the public here to consider whether it would not be better to withhold all their subscriptions from our English, or at least transfer them to such missions as will consent to attempt to propagate Christianity on the widest ...

— Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore • Robert H. Elliot

... delighted to be remembered by your charming wife, and I am entrusted with more messages from this house to her, than you would care to give or withhold, so I suppress them myself and absolve you from ...

— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870 • Charles Dickens

... child! my poor dear child!" he said, caressing her; "we will see what can be done in the way of finding a suitable escort, and if that can be obtained your mother will not, I think, withhold her consent." ...

— Grandmother Elsie • Martha Finley

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