Upholding is valid Scrabble Word

Is upholding a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is upholding valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for UPHOLDING in dictionary:

VERB:

confirm or support (something which has been questioned)
maintain (a custom or practice)

NOUN:

the act of upholding

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to hold aloft

Words related to UPHOLDING

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Words that contain UPHOLDING

How to use UPHOLDING in a sentence

At this stage of the conflict the controversy became sectional, the South upholding and the North seeking to remove the evil.
Sir, I need not, I think, trouble the House with demonstrating that the Government have failed in their avowed policy of upholding the independence and integrity of Denmark.
On this night travel was facilitated by the fact that the trail was broad enough for two horses abreast, enabling Duane to ride while upholding Stevens in the saddle.
The praise of all mortals will for ever celebrate his wisdom, his firmness, his loyalty, his admirable vigilance and prudence in upholding the interests of the public.
However, the unanimity recently shown by the press in upholding our rights at Fashoda was absolutely splendid.
She has never subjected any one to mental torment, physical torture, least of all to death, for the purpose of upholding or promoting her ideas.
Similarly, nations and States can achieve no loftier consummation than to stake their whole power on upholding their independence, their honour, and their reputation.
I talked of their president, and of the way he needed them to be upholding him, as their fathers and mothers had upheld President Lincoln.
Lancaster showed more energy in upholding his own rights than in maintaining the honour of England.
At Hereford, he sharply rebuked the bishop for upholding the barons against their natural lord.

It might then have come to be a question of whether the upholding of our shipping interest or the extension of our cotton manufactures was the most advisable policy.
Neither they nor their neighbours showed any zeal for the upholding of British rule in Canada.
In upholding State-supported and State-controlled Religion, he was rather continuing an old tradition than starting a new idea, and modern Liberalism is moving away from him.
They all, with air sedate and pious faces, Discreetly walked around, Their tails like trains upon their arms upholding, And eyes upon the ground.
Your meeting here is surely an evidence that you are upholding the Cause of God, that you are aiding and assisting in establishing the Kingdom of God.
In this meeting you are upholding His standard and assisting His Cause.
It was to bring the forces of all the States together to achieve a common object, upholding each the other in amity, and united to repel exterior force.
In his public acts he lost no opportunity of upholding the democratic tradition.
Only a regular, but he was upholding the dignity of Britain in that prison camp better than many a member of Parliament on the floor of the House of Commons.
The baronial order presently ceased to render any real service to their duke, beyond upholding him that he might uphold them.
He rode home next day, drooping in the saddle and fainting at the end of the trail, with the strong arm of August Naab upholding him.
The town of Bethany had never heard such doctrines as Robert was upholding.
It is, as matter of fact Catholics, and not those who oppose the Catholic Religion who are upholding that prerogative.
In fair fights and in upholding the law he had killed, and he would kill again if the need ever arose, as those who knew him never doubted.
Vijnana in this connection probably means the principle or germ of consciousness in the womb of the mother upholding the five elements of the new body there.
It was not until then that I realized that I had been wrong, that I had been upholding an unworthy cause.
The Americans who have been steadfast in upholding the policy that at last has prevailed are happy, but not wildly so, just happy.
She had a fantastic picture of them upholding splendid palaces upon their bent backs.
I am proud to have been in the generation that fought them down, believing that upholding the country was doing a service to the world.
How, in the earliest times, primitive people built their houses around some selected giant oak or other king of the forest, with the massive trunk itself upholding the structure.
A horrid example professed Christians set before the world, while holding slaves and upholding Slavery.
There must be some continual upholding by a word of power.
We would even go further, and ask you to shut your doors against either ministers or laymen, who are at all guilty of upholding and sustaining this monster sin.
The old political parties, while upholding it, claim to be national.

Similar words containing UPHOLD without suffix ing

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