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upholder
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Word definitions for upholder in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upholder \Up*hold"er\, n. [Up + holder. Cf. Upholsterer .] A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. [Obs.] An undertaker, or provider for funerals. [Obs.] The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. --Gay. An upholsterer. [Obs.] One who, or that which, upholds; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 someone who upholds something 2 (context obsolete English) a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy" [syn: maintainer , sustainer ]
Usage examples of upholder.
The very upholders of the Entelechy are thus compelled to introduce another soul, the Intellect, to which they ascribe immortality.
Gospel preachers joined all on one side, and the upholders of pure morality and a blameless life on the other, so that this division proved a test to us, and it was forthwith resolved that we two should pick out some of the leading men of this unsaintly and heterodox cabal, and cut them off one by one, as occasion should suit.
The Radical Parson, the upholder of Chartism, was in many ways a strong Tory.
As these had been bought by the upholders of the Revolution, for no devout Vendean would have taken part in the robbery of the church, the blow was a heavy one to those who had so long been dominant in La Vendee.
Divine service, and is a common upholder of several unlawful meetings and conventicles, to the great disturbance and distraction of the good subjects of this kingdom, contrary to the laws of our sovereign lord the King, etc.
Arthur must defeat the Fetchers, dogfaced men in bowler hats who smell of rotting meat and spread a deadly sleeping plague, and assume his full powers as Master of the Keys and upholder of the Original Law.
Queen Mab, and the Witch of the Atlas, and the Sensitive Plant, they were the upholders of the old order, George the Third and Lord Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington and Southey, and they were the canters and tramplers of the great world, and they were his enemies and himself.
Command of the Chronologic Patrol, and former commander of the Chronologic Patrol Ship Upholder.
The Church (formerly the largest publisher of bibles and other religious and "earthly" texts and the upholder and protector of reading in the Dark Ages) castigated and censored the printing of "heretical" books (especially the vernacular bibles of the Reformation) and restored the Inquisition for the specific purpose of controlling book publishing.
Wherefore our soil is not to be blamed, as though our nights were so exceeding short that in August and September the moon, which is lady of moisture and chief ripener of this liquor, cannot in any wise shine long enough upon the same: a very mere toy and fable, right worthy to be suppressed, because experience convinceth the upholders thereof even in the Rhenish wines.
In this particular regard, the "new" and "modern" view was precisely that held by Plotinus or Bruno or Cusanus or any other upholder of the doctrine of a radically decentered universe, and a view we have mentioned before: a radical nonanthropocentrism.
More moderate Sufis strove to present themselves as good Sunnis, upholders of the Sunna, orthodox Islam, but Sufis varied from strict pietists and moderates to extremists best described as 'Lords of Misrule'.
He has been proclaimed as the great prophet of the pleasure principle, and yet also as the firm and rigid upholder of the reality principle.
As fulfill’d, or partially fulfill’d, the best comfort of the whole business (after a small band of the dearest friends and upholders ever vouchsafed to man or cause -- doubtless all the more faithful and uncompromising -- this little phalanx!