"offhold" meaning in English

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        "(transitive, archaic) To retain."
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          "ref": "1950, Washington Institute of Medicine, General practice clinics:",
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          "ref": "1968, Titus Maccius Plautus, Paul Nixon, Plautus:",
          "text": "No, Love, you must be shunned by every means, offheld and offstood afar, for the man that has fallen headlong into love comes o greater grief than if he cast himself off a cliff.",
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          "ref": "2009, A.J.J. Mekking, Eric Roose, The global built environment as a representation of realities:",
          "text": "The mighty foundation of massive natural stone, in the Mediterranean realm, in India as well as in Middle- and South America, almost always represents the world of the toiling earthlings who have to off-hold the demons of depth as well as to support their god-miming oppressors.",
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        "To hold off; prevent; refrain; avoid; shun."
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        "(intransitive) To hold off; prevent; refrain; avoid; shun."
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        {
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        },
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          "text": "The mighty foundation of massive natural stone, in the Mediterranean realm, in India as well as in Middle- and South America, almost always represents the world of the toiling earthlings who have to off-hold the demons of depth as well as to support their god-miming oppressors.",
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        "(intransitive) To hold off; prevent; refrain; avoid; shun."
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