Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

with-hold

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.18 in modern English

Syllables: with--hold
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Obsolete form of withhold.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

with-holds (present, singular) with-holding (participle, present) with-held (past) with-held (participle, past) with-holden (archaic, participle)

Questions

What does with-hold mean?: Obsolete form of withhold.

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