withold

English

Verb

withold (third-person singular simple present witholds, present participle witholding, simple past witheld, past participle witheld or (rare, archaic) witholden)

1. Obsolete spelling of withhold.
   • 1660 February, John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, Compar’d with the Inconveniencies and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 793:

     Us if he ſhall hear now, how much leſs will he hear when we cry hereafter, who once deliver'd by him from a King, and not without wondrous Acts of his Providence, inſenſible and unworthy of thoſe high Mercies, are returning precipitantly, if he withold us not, back to the Captivity from whence he freed us.