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onholding

onholding adjective: continuous; perpetual; lasting.

Adjective

onholding (comparative more onholding, superlative most onholding)

  1. Continuous; perpetual; lasting.
    • In the work of a waggon-builder or coach-maker, if a man made a whole wheel, the shaving of spokes would come in its turn with other kinds of work that would call the workman into sundry postures, with sundry muscles in action ; whereas, when by a more exact division of labour, one man is confined...1859, William Barnes, Views of labour and gold
    • Since Friday morning police officers of the city of Seoul, Republic of Korea, are experiencing an onholding increase of witnesses of a yet unidentified, possibly hazardous biological phenomenon.2009, http://crystalgyro.wordpress.com/,New life in Eastern Asia?

Forms of onholding

comparativemore onholding
superlativemost onholding

Origin of onholding

From on- + holding.

Questions about onholding

What does onholding mean?
Onholding means continuous; perpetual; lasting.
What part of speech is onholding?
Onholding is an adjective.

Words near onholding in the dictionary

  1. onhand
  2. onhanger
  3. onhangers
  4. onheld
  5. onhold
  6. onholding
  7. onholds
  8. oni
  9. onia
  10. onibi
  11. Onibury

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