Uphold vs Insist - What's the difference?
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To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
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To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
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To support by approval or encouragement.
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To hold up a claim emphatically.
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To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
* 1709 , Venturus Mandey, Synopsis Mathematica Universalis
As verbs the difference between uphold and insist
is that uphold is to hold up; to lift on high; to elevate while insist is to hold up a claim emphatically.uphold
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- but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.
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* English words with consonant pseudo-digraphsinsist
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* ensistVerb
(en verb)- (I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)
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- Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.