Meaning of hold with | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To approve of, to condone.
2. To agree with someone (to be in harmony about an opinion or perspective).
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Examples

“I don't hold⟳ with that sort⟳ of thing!”

“"Did you have⟳ any lunch?" "I don't hold⟳ with regular meals." "Did you have⟳ a book?" "I don't hold⟳ with books in the open⟳. None of the older men read⟳." "Did you commune with yourself, or don't you hold⟳ with that?"”

“"[…] I like⟳ Henrietta, but I don’t hold⟳ with murder⟳ […]””

“While I washed up I told Bert about my parents getting a divorce. He said he didn’t hold⟳ with divorce. He said he was married for thirty-five miserable years so why should anybody else get⟳ away with it?”

“I hold⟳ with Aristotle on ethics.”

“It is clear that Rabh holds with the first teacher and Samuel holds with R. Simeon b. Gamaliel, but whom does R. Assi's opinion agree⟳ with?”

“[Psychologist Bill Richards came to believe⟳] that consciousness is a property of the universe, not brains. On this question⟳, he holds with Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, who conceived of the human mind⟳ as a kind of radio receiver”

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