at-upholding

Updated: May 6, 2025

Thousands of men as well as women never recover from the effects of these crimes against the credulous faith of childhood for they are no less. Then there are particular passages in our literature, sacred and profane, which do their share at-upholding the belief in the supernatural, especially as connected with the uninspired foretelling of future events "fortune-telling."

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862