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English
Etymology
From Middle English upholden, equivalent to up- + hold. Compare Dutch ophouden (“to stop, cease, hold up”), German aufhalten (“to stop, halt, detain”). Compare also Middle Low German upholt, Old Norse upphald (“uphold, support”).
Pronunciation
Verb
uphold (third-person singular simple present upholds, present participle upholding, simple past upheld, past participle upheld or (archaic) upholden)
- To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
1899, John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer, Percival Chubb, Dryden's Palamon and Arcite, page 5:The mournful train/ Echoed her grief, [...]/ With groans, and hands upheld, to move his mind, /Besought his pity to their helpless kind
- To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:Uttering such broken ejaculations Mrs. Hart burst into a passion of tears, and only Lord Chetwynde's strong arms prevented her from falling. / He upheld her.
- Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom?
- Similarly, both the Government and the EU argued at the time the deal was agreed that they were upholding the Good Friday Agreement by implementing the Protocol.
- To support by approval or encouragement, to confirm (something which has been questioned)
1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 18:but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.
Derived terms
Translations
to keep erect
- Arabic: سَنَدَ (sanada)
- Bulgarian: поддържам (bg) (poddǎržam)
- Catalan: sostenir (ca)
- Dutch: schragen (nl), steunen (nl), ondersteunen (nl)
- Finnish: tukea (fi), pitää pystyssä
- French: soutenir (fr)
- German: hochhalten (de), aufrecht halten, aufrechterhalten (de)
- Latin: tueor
- Maori: tautīnei
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: holde (no)
- Russian: подде́рживать (ru) impf (poddérživatʹ), сохраня́ть (ru) impf (soxranjátʹ), отстаива́ть (ru) impf (otstaivátʹ), ока́зывать подде́ржку impf (okázyvatʹ poddéržku)
- Spanish: sustentar (es), sostener (es), mantener (es)
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to support by approval or encouragement
- Arabic: دَعَمَ (daʕama)
- Bulgarian: подкрепям (bg) (podkrepjam), насърчавам (bg) (nasǎrčavam)
- Dutch: ondersteunen (nl), staande houden, verdedigen (nl), bevestigen (nl)
- Finnish: ylläpitää (fi), pitää yllä, pysyttää voimassa (of sentences etc.), pitää ennallaan (of sentences etc.)
- French: soutenir (fr)
- German: unterstützen (de), verteidigen (de), bestätigen (de)
- Indonesian: menyangga, mendukung, menyokong, menjaga, melestarikan
- Italian: difendere (a right), sostenere (a principle), (law) confermare
- Japanese: 支持する (しじする, shiji-suru), 支える (ja) (ささえる, sasaeru), 保つ (ja) (たもつ, tamotsu)
- Maori: tautīnei
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: støtte (no)
- Portuguese: suportar (pt)
- Russian: одобря́ть (ru) impf (odobrjátʹ), подтвержда́ть (ru) impf (podtverždátʹ)
- Spanish: sostener (es), confirmar (es)
- Swedish: upprätthålla (sv)
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References
- ^ Oxford-Paravia Concise - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano e Italiano-Inglese. Edited by Maria Cristina Bareggi. Torino: Paravia, 2003 (in collaboration with Oxford University Press). ISBN 8839551107. Online version here
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