to withholden
- verb
- /wɪðˈhoʊldən/
- Archaic
- The payment was withholden due to a dispute.
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Watch on YouTubeI could confidently tell you I know why God withheld that wisdom from you.
- I could confidently tell you I know why God withheld that wisdom from you.
- And we now know that they withheld evidence.
- In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding.
- I so you know, I have issue with the fact that the footage was, was withheld from me, right?
- So I have never, and, and I mean never, I have never withheld dessert or whatever.
- OK, Just before we kind of get into all the corruption and evidence that was withheld.
- And it usually means almost all the time withheld opinions.
- As if scribbled, the withheld stares back onto its insolent intention.
- So where there was evidence that took the case in elsewhere, that was suppressed and withheld and they went with me.
Examples
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The king's favor was withholden from those who disobeyed his orders.
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Justice had long been withholden from the oppressed people.
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In old documents, you may find the word withholden used instead of 'withheld'.
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He felt that his trust had been withholden from him.
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The king's favor was withholden from those who disobeyed his orders.
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Justice had long been withholden from the oppressed people.
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He felt that his trust had been withholden from him.
Synonyms
Kept in someone's hand or owned by them
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Withholden is an old form of the verb withhold, made from the parts with- meaning 'back' and hold meaning 'keep'. It literally means 'kept back' or 'refused to give', which is why older writing uses withholden where we now say 'withheld'.