hold true
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Verb edit
hold true (third-person singular simple present holds true, present participle holding true, simple past and past participle held true)
- (intransitive) To be or remain true, valid or applicable; to apply.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- However the case may be with societies under widely different conditions of development, the law of mass and individuality holds true of the social facts known to us.
Translations edit
to be true or valid
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