uphold
verb (used with object)
to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism.
upholder
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a word derived from
uphold.
Example Sentences
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Raisi was a protege of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and a devoted upholder of religious rule in the country.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
Akeem is both the upholder of that patriarchy and the only one in a position to dismantle it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2021
Hosmer saw himself as a protector, not as an upholder of the game’s codes.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2020
Television presenter, who played the lovable and long-suffering upholder of peace on children's programme Rainbow from 1974-1992 - alongside characters Zippy, George and Bungle.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2018
Halifax, a Trimmer indeed, but of closer affinities with Whiggery than with Toryism, and the chief upholder of the Whig doctrine on the question of the succession, became Lord Privy Seal.
From William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
