"hold with" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> with"
      },
      "expansion": "hold with (third-person singular simple present holds with, present participle holding with, simple past and past participle held with)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I don't hold with that sort of thing!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey",
          "text": "\"Did you have any lunch?\"\n\"I don't hold with regular meals.\"\n\"Did you have a book?\"\n\"I don't hold with books in the open. None of the older men read.\"\n\"Did you commune with yourself, or don't you hold with that?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Peter Cheyney, Dames Don't Care, Pan Books, 1960 edition, page 100",
          "text": "[…] I like Henrietta, but I don’t hold with murder […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982 October 7, Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, page 58",
          "text": "While I washed up I told Bert about my parents getting a divorce. He said he didn’t hold with divorce. He said he was married for thirty-five miserable years so why should anybody else get away with it?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To approve of, to condone."
      ],
      "id": "en-hold_with-en-verb-JO1h1UKc",
      "links": [
        [
          "approve",
          "approve"
        ],
        [
          "condone",
          "condone"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "always in the negative",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(always in the negative) To approve of, to condone."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (with)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I hold with Aristotle on ethics.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Michael L. Rodkinson, chapter IV, in Tractate Shabbat, a modern English translation from the 5th century Mishanic Hebrew",
          "text": "It is clear that Rabh holds with the first teacher and Samuel holds with R. Simeon b. Gamaliel, but whom does R. Assi's opinion agree with?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind",
          "text": "[Psychologist Bill Richards came to believe] that consciousness is a property of the universe, not brains. On this question, he holds with Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, who conceived of the human mind as a kind of radio receiver",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To agree with someone (to be in harmony about an opinion or perspective)."
      ],
      "id": "en-hold_with-en-verb-mGT3JpMn",
      "links": [
        [
          "agree",
          "agree"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) To agree with someone (to be in harmony about an opinion or perspective)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold with"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (with)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> with"
      },
      "expansion": "hold with (third-person singular simple present holds with, present participle holding with, simple past and past participle held with)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I don't hold with that sort of thing!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey",
          "text": "\"Did you have any lunch?\"\n\"I don't hold with regular meals.\"\n\"Did you have a book?\"\n\"I don't hold with books in the open. None of the older men read.\"\n\"Did you commune with yourself, or don't you hold with that?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Peter Cheyney, Dames Don't Care, Pan Books, 1960 edition, page 100",
          "text": "[…] I like Henrietta, but I don’t hold with murder […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982 October 7, Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, page 58",
          "text": "While I washed up I told Bert about my parents getting a divorce. He said he didn’t hold with divorce. He said he was married for thirty-five miserable years so why should anybody else get away with it?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To approve of, to condone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "approve",
          "approve"
        ],
        [
          "condone",
          "condone"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "always in the negative",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(always in the negative) To approve of, to condone."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I hold with Aristotle on ethics.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Michael L. Rodkinson, chapter IV, in Tractate Shabbat, a modern English translation from the 5th century Mishanic Hebrew",
          "text": "It is clear that Rabh holds with the first teacher and Samuel holds with R. Simeon b. Gamaliel, but whom does R. Assi's opinion agree with?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind",
          "text": "[Psychologist Bill Richards came to believe] that consciousness is a property of the universe, not brains. On this question, he holds with Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, who conceived of the human mind as a kind of radio receiver",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To agree with someone (to be in harmony about an opinion or perspective)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "agree",
          "agree"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) To agree with someone (to be in harmony about an opinion or perspective)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold with"
}