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upholder en · NOUN

Etymology

From uphold + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who upholds something.
   • an upholder of ethical principles
   • Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.] 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:
2. (obsolete) A dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster.

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