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plural upholders
Someone who upholds something. quotations examples
Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12
(obsolete) A dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster.