Meaning of bear up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To sail close to the wind.
2. To endure hardship cheerfully or without complaining.
   idiomatic, intransitive
3. To support; to keep from falling or sinking.
   idiomatic, transitive

Examples

“Afterwards the Lord renued this Covenant with Noah, Gen. 6.10. and did further reveale it in another Type, namely, the ſaving of Noah and his family in the Arke, which was borne up by the flood of Waters; […]”

“[Religious hope] does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings.”

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