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/wɪθhˈoʊldɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Withhold v. t. (past withheld; past part. withheld, obs. or archaic withholden; pres. part. withholding)

To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. "Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him."

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."

To keep; to maintain; to retain. (Obs.) "To withhold it the more easily in heart."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Withholding" Quotes from Famous Books

... love pours out so eagerly to man—stand together and demand of men, Manliness. Women will learn to withhold themselves where manliness is not, as the flower of young womanhood is doing to-day.... I tell you, David, woman can make of man anything she wills—by withholding herself from him.... Through his desire for her!... This is her Power. This is all in man that electricity is in Nature—a measureless, colossal force. Mastering that (and to woman alone is the mastery), she can light the world. Giving away to it ...

— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort

... entering into holy orders. Montague alleged the corruption of men who engaged in civil employments without liberal education; and declared, that, though he was represented as an enemy to the church, he would never do it any injury but by withholding ...

— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson

... Can you not understand how suffering may destroy all that is lofty in a man; how the forgetfulness of the winecup may come to be his only consolation; the hope of vengeance his only motive for living on, withholding him from self-destruction? Can you not picture such a life, and can you not pity and forgive much of the wreck that it may make of a ...

— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini

... I could barely show her my letter. I proposed to her to walk out with me; but Mrs. Heep repeatedly complaining that she was worse, Agnes charitably remained within, to bear her company. Towards the twilight I went out by myself, musing on what I ought to do, and whether I was justified in withholding from Agnes, any longer, what Uriah Heep had told me in London; for that began to ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... and as the steps came upwards, she was pulled back into the sitting-room by Honor, at first almost by force, then with passive, dejected submission, and held tight to the back of a chair, her lip between her teeth, as though withholding herself by force from springing forward as the familiar voice, weak, weary, and uncertain, ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

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