With-hold
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: With-hold is a verb meaning Obsolete form of withhold.
Meaning
Obsolete form of withhold.
Example Sentences
Revenge and Malice were as two violent oppugners on the one ſide, but Honeſty, Religion, Feare of God, with-held him on the other.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- with-holds
- with-holding
- with-held
- with-holden
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