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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"

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

... thought it right to implore your Majesty to send the aid you will think fit and with it to send us (the Irish refugees in the Peninsula) to defend and uphold the same undertaking; for we hope, with God's help Your Majesty will be victorious and conquer and hold as your own the kingdom of Ireland.—We trust in God that Your Majesty and the Council will weigh well the advantages that will ensue to Christendom from this enterprise—since ...

— The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 • Roger Casement

... safely, and we struck one of the long ridges which slope gently from the lake to the base of the mountain. Here walking was comparatively easy, for in the hard-wood timber there is little underbrush. The massive trunks seemed like pillars set to uphold the level roof of green. Great yellow birches, shaggy with age, stretched their knotted arms high above us; sugar-maples stood up straight and proud under their leafy crowns; and smooth beeches—the most polished ...

— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke

... parent and the schoolmaster. The school still reserves all its best gifts, its sunshine and smiles, for the knightly and the skilful; it rewards all the qualities that are their own reward. Why, if it wishes to get the right scale adopted, does it not reward the thing which it professes to uphold as its best result, worth of character namely? It claims to be a training-ground for character first, but it does little to encourage secret and unobtrusive virtues. That is, it adds its prizes to the things which the natural man values, and it neglects to crown the one thing at which it ...

— Where No Fear Was - A Book About Fear • Arthur Christopher Benson

... is to the British Navy and to nothing else that the credit is due. Were it not for the known resolve of the British nation to co-operate in case of need with the American people in their exertions to uphold that doctrine against Germany, the Berlin Cabinet would long ago have formally established a firm footing in Southern Brazil and the United States Government would have been ...

— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon

... Mr. Britt, menace in his tones. "I've got a new and special reason, right now, why I demand that every citizen must uphold the good name of our town—especially a citizen in your position, first to meet all arriving strangers. Why does the name fit this town?" He banged the handle of his knife ...

— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day

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