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bear up

verb

Definitions

  1. To sail close to the wind.

  2. To endure hardship cheerfully or without complaining.

  3. To support

    To support; to keep from falling or sinking.

    • Afterwards the Lord renued this Covenant with Noah, Gen. 6.10. and did further reveale it in another Type, namely, the ſaving of Noah and his family in the Arke, which was borne up by the flood of Waters; […]
    • [Religious hope] does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA