Upholder

Definitions

1. Someone who upholds something.
2. A dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“an upholder of ethical principles”

“Libraries have⟳ been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have⟳ been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]”

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