upholden

English

Etymology

up- +‎ holden

Verb

upholden

1. (archaic) past participle of uphold
   • 1611, Authorized King James Version, Job 4:4:

     Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

   • 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, Proposition XV, §. VIII.:

     For these wretches would be necessitated then to betake themselves to some honest livelihood, if they were not fed and upholden, by these.