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upborne

upborne is the past participle of upbear.

Meaning of upbear

Verb

upbear (third-person singular simple present upbears, present participle upbearing, simple past upbore, past participle upborne or (archaic, poetic) upbore)

  1. (dated, transitive) To hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high
    • One short sigh of breath, upborne / Even to the seat of God.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Questions about upborne

What is upborne the past participle of?
Upborne is the past participle of upbear.

Words near upborne in the dictionary

  1. upboiling
  2. upboils
  3. upboost
  4. upboosts
  5. upbore
  6. upborne
  7. upbound
  8. upbounden
  9. upbow
  10. upbowed
  11. upbowing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upborne (page history and authors); upbear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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