with-hold

A form of withhold — To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.

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Meanings

verbwith-hold (third-person singular simple present with-holds, present participle with-holding, simple past with-held, past participle with-held or (archaic) with-holden)

present singular third person with-holds · participle present with-holding · past with-held · participle past with-held · archaic participle past with-holden

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of withhold.

    Revenge and Malice were as two violent oppugners on the one ſide, but Honeſty, Religion, Feare of God, with-held him on the other.

    1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Of the Will”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 1, member 2, subsection 11, page 44
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    Her loathly viſage viewing with diſdaine, Eftſoones I thought her ſuch, as ſhe me told, And would haue kild her; but with faigned paine, The falſe witch did my wrathfull hand with-hold: So left her, where ſhe now is turnd to treen mould.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 30

    Surely you cannot be ignorant, that the ſinfulneſs of fine apparel lies chiefly in the expenſiveneſs. In that it is robbing God and the Poor; it is defrauding the fatherleſs and widow; it is waſting the food of the hungry, and with-holding his raiment from the naked, to conſume it on our own luſts.

    1796 [1743], John Wesley, An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, 8th edition, London: […] G. Whitfield, […], page 212
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