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Verb
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:"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 […] ”
- (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, 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:[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
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