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English
Etymology
From Middle English upberen, equivalent to up- + bear.
Verb
upbear (third-person singular simple present upbears, present participle upbearing, simple past upbore, past participle upborne or (archaic, poetic) upbore)
- (dated, transitive) To hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:One short sigh of breath, upborne
Even to the seat of God.
1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. , London: Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:A monstrous wave up-bore the chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore.
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