upholder

English

Etymology

From uphold +‎ -er.

Noun

upholder (plural upholders)

1. Someone who upholds something.

   an upholder of ethical principles

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:

     Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]

2. (obsolete) A dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster.