upholden
English
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[edit]upholden
- (archaic) past participle of uphold
- 1611, Authorized King James Version, Job 4:4:
- Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
- 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, Proposition XV, §. VIII.:
- For these wretches would be necessitated then to betake themselves to some honest livelihood, if they were not fed and upholden, by these.