Meaning of with-hold | Babel Free

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

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