upbear
verbEtymology From Middle English upberen, equivalent to up- + bear.
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Dated To hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high
- One short sigh of breath, upborne / Even to the seat of God.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- A monstrous wave up-bore the chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore.1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
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- [S]o / Do these upbear the little world below / Of Education,—Patience, Love, and Hope.1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “[Sibylline Leaves.] Love, Hope, and Patience in Education.”, in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge […], volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1880, →OCLC, page 334: