inhold

Etymology

From in- + hold. Compare Old English onhealdan (“to hold, keep, maintain”). More at in, hold.

verb

  1. To contain, hold in.
    Sound implicates these obscure tethers, which connect sound to noise, thereby giving sound its sense. The implicated difference inholds an obscure reserve of sense. 2002, Brian Massumi, A shock to thought: expression after Deleuze and Guattari
  2. To possess inherently, contain in oneself.
    c. 1604-1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, Cynthia If to the living were my muse addressed, Or did my mind her own spirit still inhold

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