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Webster 1913 Edition

Uphold

Up-hold′

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
The mournful train with groans, and hands
upheld
.
Besought his pity.
Dryden.
2.
To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
Honor shall
uphold
the humble in spirit.
Prov. xxix 3.
Faulconbridge,
In spite of spite, alone
upholds
the day.
Shakespeare
3.
To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance;
as, to
uphold
a person in wrongdoing
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Uphold

UPHOLD

,
Verb.
T.
pret. and pp. upheld. [Upholden is obsolete.]
1.
To lift on high; to elevate.
2.
To support; to sustain; to keep from falling or slipping.
Honor shall uphold the humble in spirit. Prov. 29.
3.
To keep from declension.
4.
To support in any state.
5.
To continue; to maintain.
6.
To keep from being lost.
Faulconbridge, in spite of spite, along upholds the day.
7.
To continue without failing.
8.
To continue in being.

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