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Upholder   Listen
noun
Upholder  n.  
1.
A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. (Obs.)
2.
An undertaker, or provider for funerals. (Obs.) "The upholder, rueful harbinger of death."
3.
An upholsterer. (Obs.)
4.
One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.





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"Upholder" Quotes from Famous Books



... Yet if they had been in Rushton's place they would have been compelled to adopt the same methods, or become bankrupt: for it is obvious that the only way to compete successfully against other employers who are sweaters is to be a sweater yourself. Therefore no one who is an upholder of the present system can consistently blame any of these men. ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... before him, Mr. IAN MACPHERSON, who reappeared in the House after a long absence in Ireland, had to figure with a scourge in one hand and an olive branch in the other. At Question-time he was the stern upholder of law and order, obliged within the last few days to suspend a seditious newspaper and to surround the Dublin Mansion House with soldiers. A few moments later he was moving the Second Reading of a most ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 21, 1919. • Various
... have married such a man! It was the reward a good woman received for helping her husband, making him into a good citizen, a patriot and an upholder of law and order: For always, of course, those who own the garden would see that their head weedchopper was taken care of, and had his share of the best that the garden produced. Gladys stood before her looking-glass, braiding her hair for the night, and thinking ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair
... Professor Henry used to cover a wide field in scientific philosophy. Adherence to the Presbyterian church did not prevent his being as uncompromising an upholder of modern scientific views of the universe as I ever knew. He was especially severe on the delusions of spiritualism. To a friend who once told him that he had seen a "medium" waft himself through a window, he replied, "Judge, you never saw that; ...
— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb
... upholder of the "Avesta" was the numismatologist Tychsen, who, having begun to read the book with a prejudice against its authenticity, quitted it with a conviction to the contrary. "There is nothing in it," he writes, "but what befits remote ages, and a ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various


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