Withhold

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Withhold - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

WITHHOLD, v.t. pret. and pp. withheld. [with and hold.]

1. TO hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.

Withhold--your hasty hand.

If our passions may be withheld.

2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. The sun does not withhold his light.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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