"upholder" meaning in English

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          "text": "an upholder of ethical principles"
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          "text": "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[.]",
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        "Someone who upholds something."
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      "glosses": [
        "A dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster."
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          "clothes",
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        "(obsolete) A dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster."
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  "etymology_text": "From uphold + -er.",
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