upholder

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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.