hold to
verb1
To share or subscribe to (a belief, etc.).
- I do not hold to their radical opinions.
2
To adhere strongly to (a conviction, story, etc.).
- to hold to one's original story
- Despite contrary admonitions, they held to their fundamentalist Christian views.
3
To follow, be consistent with (a rule, pattern, etc.)
- The poem which holds strictly to Rağaz-meter (altered) is set to music unrelated in time.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 116:
4
To compel (someone) to remain faithful to (a commitment, moral standard, etc.).
- Jill holds her grandfather to her own standards and finds them wanting.
- Derived terms
- hold to account, hold someone's feet to the fire