Uphold is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UPHOLD in dictionary:

VERB:
• to hold aloft
• confirm or support (something which has been questioned)
• maintain (a custom or practice)
• maintain or defend against opposition
• To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
• To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
• To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.
• keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
• stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals
• support against an opponent

Words related to UPHOLD

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Words that contain UPHOLD

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How to use UPHOLD in a sentence

• His sincerity in defence of the Church was never questioned, and hence all the influences of the Church were exerted to uphold his domination.
• That is the whole truth, as Allah is our witness! We are honest men, who seek to uphold the law, and we claim the protection of the Government.
• Founded to promote purity of personal life, it was used to uphold the arms of spiritual despotism.
• I shall never die like this, because I have no basis to uphold me in the hour of death.
• Until he can do this, I shall uphold, justify, and sustain them, as I do other citizens.
• But even if TWO clauses are immoral that is enough for our purpose, and shews that no honest man should engage to uphold them.
• You must marry me in order to uphold your claim to France.
• It is a noble effort to uphold the right, or what he thought to be the right, without fear of contempt or unpopularity.
• There are plenty of good people, however, who would uphold him in that transaction.
• The determined stand taken by the Hawaiian Government, and the absolute certainty that the United States would uphold it, finally opened the eyes of the Japanese to their mistake.
• In too many schools the parent not only uphold their boys in direct disobedience to their masters, but even encourage them in it out of personal dislike to them.
• I knew you were from Baltimore, and I was fearful you might uphold that infernal mob which murdered the brave Massachusetts boys.
• Force only, military prestige only, can uphold you.
• And they knew that in order to uphold the principles for which it stood they must cling together and fight manfully.
• As to his last battle, though his heart was breaking, he marched nor paused, perceiving, so long as he was king, he must uphold the order of the State.
• I am satisfied that it does not uphold violence, oppression, and wrong, and throw around these things the sanction of the divine mind.
• Cause the husband to return to Tamiya, once more to uphold its rights and influence.
• Why should man invent such a prejudice? How can we uphold war caused by an illusion? God has not created men that they should destroy one another.
• The boys thought him peculiar, but there were not a few who came to uphold him in refusing to fight when he had given his mother his word that he would do nothing of the kind.
• The only objection to them is that, if upheld on modern conditions, these principles would soon leave us without anyone to uphold them.
• I offered him a million dollars to forsake the cause he had pledged himself to uphold.
• It was in obedience to such a feeling that countless devout Christians, in the Middle Ages, fought and killed to uphold their religion.
• For the present all that we desire is to uphold its general importance, and with this result we return again to the combat.
• This doctrine it is, which makes so many spiritual persons lend active or passive aid to uphold abuses and perpetuate mischief in every department of human life.
• To gaze back, to uphold the old times, was a most natural conservatism, and fruitless.
• But this theory has fallen to the ground and no writer of the present day pretends to uphold it.
• So Havelok set the crown on her head while the chiefs in one voice swore to uphold her through good and ill, as though she were Havelok himself.
• Some of the women who uphold the doctrine of equality between the sexes make the mistake of thinking and of teaching that there can be no equality without identical work.
• We never could see it any other way than as a howling farce-comedy that the San Augustine Rifles were actually fighting to uphold the Stars and Stripes.

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