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Upbear

Upbear \Up*bear"\, v. t. To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain.
--Spenser.

One short sigh of breath, upbore Even to the seat of God.
--Milton.

A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore.
--Pope.

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upbear

vb. (context transitive English) To bear up; raise aloft; support in an elevated situation; sustain.

Usage examples of "upbear".

Below them in the valley, the Seine wound snakewise through a series of silvery silent loops, and beyond, across the fields and forests and villages, already melting swiftly into night and twinkling with a diamond dust of lights, they saw the huge and smoking substance that was Paris, a design of elfin towers and ancient buildings and vast inhuman distances, an architecture of enchantment, smoky, lovely as a dream, seeming to be upborne, to be sustained, to float there like the vision of an impossible and unapproachable loveliness, out of a huge opalescent mist.

She spread her arms wide, in indication of the vastness of the upbearing body whereon she sat.

It was a tall wooden frame, upbearing two arms painted in bright stripes and tipped with polished brass.

The rushing energy upbearing him begins to weaken, to wane and dissolve.

The light of the down-gone sun, the garment of Aurora, which, so short would be her rest, she had not drawn close around her on her couch, floated up on the horizon, and swept slowly northwards, lightly upborne on that pale sea of delicate green and gold, to flicker all night around the northern coast of the sky, and, streaming up in the heavens, melt at last in the glory of the uprisen Titan.

My form upborne by viewless aether rode, And spurned the lessening realms of earthly night.

V Tom Chist was gone for almost an hour, though he ran nearly all the way and back, upborne as on the wings of the wind.

II I looked there as the seasons wore, And still his soul continuously upbore Its life in theirs.