with-hold

See also: withhold

English

Verb

with-hold (third-person singular simple present with-holds, present participle with-holding, simple past with-held, past participle with-held or (archaic) with-holden)

1. Obsolete form of withhold.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 30:

     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.

   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Of the Will”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 1, member 2, subsection 11, page 44:

     Revenge and Malice were as two violent oppugners on the one ſide, but Honeſty, Religion, Feare of God, with-held him on the other.

   • 1796 [1743], John Wesley, An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, 8th edition, London: […] G. Whitfield, […], page 212:

     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.