held good

Verb

hold good (third-person singular simple present holds good, present participle holding good, simple past and past participle held good)

1. (intransitive) To continue being true or valid; to hold true.
   • That explanation does not hold good in this matter.

   Synonyms:

   hold

2. (intransitive) To remain effective, fast, or secure.
   • She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! / She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood! / They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years, / Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, / Cold, on the stroke of midnight, / The...1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 2, stanza IV, pages 50–51