hold true

verb

hold true

verb
1

To be or remain true, valid or applicable; to apply.

  • However the case may be with societies under widely different conditions of development, the law of mass and individuality holds true of the social facts known to us.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
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