Usually means: Maintaining or supporting without compromise.
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  1. upholding: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. upholding: Collins English Dictionary
  3. upholding: Vocabulary.com
  4. Upholding, upholding: Wordnik
  5. upholding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. upholding: Wiktionary
  7. upholding: Dictionary.com
  8. upholding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. upholding: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. upholding: Legal dictionary

(Note: See uphold as well.)

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noun:  The act by which something is upheld.

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