Definition of Withholden. Meaning of Withholden. Synonyms of Withholden

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Definition of Withholden

Withholden
Withhold With*hold", v. t. [imp. Withheld; p. p. Withheld, Obs. or Archaic Withholden; p. pr. & vb. n. Withholding.] [With again, against, back + hold.] 1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. --Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good. --Milton. 3. To keep; to maintain; to retain. [Obs.] To withhold it the more easily in heart. --Chaucer.

Meaning of Withholden from wikipedia

- animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered...
- animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny". Nineteenth-century linguist and...
- shall he rejoice! Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah. For thou preventest him with the blessings...
- themselves seemed in too unfinished a state to brave criticism. They are withholden therefore from the world in general, under a persuasion that so would...