onholding

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English

Etymology

From on- +‎ holding.

Adjective

onholding (comparative more onholding, superlative most onholding)

  1. Continuous; perpetual; lasting.
    • 1859, William Barnes, Views of labour and gold:
      In the work of a waggon-builder or coach-maker, if a man made a whole wheel, the shaving of spokes would come in its turn with other kinds of work that would call the workman into sundry postures, with sundry muscles in action ; whereas, when by a more exact division of labour, one man is confined only to the shaving of spokes, he may have a daily onholding pressure on the stomach that may soon affect his health.
    • 2009, http://crystalgyro.wordpress.com/,New life in Eastern Asia?:
      Since Friday morning police officers of the city of Seoul, Republic of Korea, are experiencing an onholding increase of witnesses of a yet unidentified, possibly hazardous biological phenomenon.

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