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hold with en · VERB

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1. (qualifier:always in the negative) To approve of, to condone.
   • "Did you have any lunch?" "I don't hold with regular meals." "Did you have a book?" "I don't hold with books in the open. None of the older men read." "Did you commune with yourself, or don't you hold with that?" 1907, E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey:
   • "[…] I like Henrietta, but I don’t hold with murder […]” 1937, Peter Cheyney, Dames Don't Care, Pan Books, 1960 edition, page 100:
   • I don't hold with that sort of thing!
   • While I washed up I told Bert about my parents getting a divorce. He said he didn’t hold with divorce. He said he was married for thirty-five miserable years so why should anybody else get away with it? 1982 October 7, Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, →ISBN, page 58:
2. (US) To agree with someone (to be in harmony about an opinion or perspective).
   • It is clear that Rabh holds with the first teacher and Samuel holds with R. Simeon b. Gamaliel, but whom does R. Assi's opinion agree with? 1903, Michael L. Rodkinson, chapter IV, in Tractate Shabbat, a modern English translation from the 5th century Mishanic Hebrew:
   • [Psychologist Bill Richards came to believe] that consciousness is a property of the universe, not brains. On this question, he holds with Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, who conceived of the human mind as a kind of radio receiver 2018, Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind:
   • I hold with Aristotle on ethics.

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