hold with
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]hold with (third-person singular simple present holds with, present participle holding with, simple past and past participle held with)
- (always in the negative) To approve of, to condone.
- I don't hold with that sort of thing!
- 1907, E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey[1]:
- "Did you have any lunch?"
"I don't hold with regular meals."
"Did you have a book?"
"I don't hold with books in the open. None of the older men read."
"Did you commune with yourself, or don't you hold with that?"
- 1937, Peter Cheyney, Dames Don't Care, Pan Books, 1960 edition, page 100:
- " […] I like Henrietta, but I don’t hold with murder […] ”
- 1982 October 7, Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾[2], →ISBN, page 58:
- While I washed up I told Bert about my parents getting a divorce. He said he didn’t hold with divorce. He said he was married for thirty-five miserable years so why should anybody else get away with it?
- (US) To agree with someone (to be in harmony about an opinion or perspective).
- I hold with Aristotle on ethics.
- 1903, Michael L. Rodkinson, chapter IV, in Tractate Shabbat[3], a modern English translation from the 5th century Mishanic Hebrew:
- It is clear that Rabh holds with the first teacher and Samuel holds with R. Simeon b. Gamaliel, but whom does R. Assi's opinion agree with?
- 2018, Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind[4]:
- [Psychologist Bill Richards came to believe] that consciousness is a property of the universe, not brains. On this question, he holds with Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, who conceived of the human mind as a kind of radio receiver