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upholder

How to use upholder in a sentence

The original term was upholder, which is still in occasional use; next upholster; and, thirdly, upholsterer.

Such a statement is occasionally made by a consistent upholder of the mechanical system of Voice Culture.

He paused, and frowned, conscious that he was making little impression on the upholder of law and order.

Stewart was an upholder of Whig principles, when the Scottish government was in the hands of the staunchest Tories.

But the stern upholder of the law did not feel that he had the right to disobey the instructions of his father.

Mr. Podgers was quite impersonal, but positive, as befitted an upholder of pure faith.

THIRTYHOWARD VINCENT O'BRIEN

But God is the upholder of us all by His mighty power, and preserves us from the wrath of the wicked that would swallow us up.

Prel′atism, Prel′ature, prelacy: the time during which a prelate exercises authority; Prel′atist, an upholder of prelacy.

Rathke, in particular, was a firm upholder of the doctrine, and made considerable use of it in his writings.

FORM AND FUNCTIONE. S. (EDWARD STUART) RUSSELL

I do not call the upholder of the developmental doctrine a believer of this kind.

OPUSCULAROBERT GORDON LATHAM

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985