count upon

Meanings

verbcount upon (third-person singular simple present counts upon, present participle counting upon, simple past and past participle counted upon)

present singular third person counts upon · participle present counting upon · participle past counted upon · past counted upon

Synonym of count on.
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They have it ready in their Mouths, that the People of England are of a Genius and Temper, never to admit Slavery among them; […] I think it a great Error to count upon the Genius of a Nation as a ſtanding Argument in all Ages; ſince there is hardly a Spot of Ground in Europe, where the Inhabitants have not frequently and entirely changed their Temper and Genius.
1701, [Jonathan Swift], “Chapter V”, in A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, with the Consequences They Had upon Both Those States, London: […] John Nutt […], →OCLC, page 50
Synonyms: count on

verbSynonym of count on.

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