underprop

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An acquaintance of Lowell’s bemoaned the habit Lowell had of “jumping at some general idea or theorem,” after which he “selects and bends facts to underprop that generalization.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

And so the food is taken to underprop The tottering joints, and by its interfusion To re-create their powers, and there stop up The longing, open-mouthed through limbs and veins, For eating.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

But, I pray, doth the word underprop or approve the use of anything indifferent, if it be not used according to the foresaid rules, and, by consequence, conveniently and profitably?

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

For this self-confidence, which might to a careless observer seem to underprop Peter’s courage, was to the eye of the Lord undermining it.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus

Cavendish goes on to observe that Sir Walter was in wonderful declination, yet laboured to underprop himself by my Lord Treasurer and his friends.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)