0 a person or organization that upholds (= defends) a law, a principle, or a decision that has been made:
Your country has an enviable reputation as a champion of freedom and upholder of standards of decency.
He has a reputation as a staunch upholder of the traditions of golf.
But today it would be hard to represent the scions of either as staunch upholders of shastric orthodoxy.
The speaker, along with the unnamed group in which he is indexically centered, is now typified as norm-upholder.
To achieve the healthy good looks that upholders of a dominant practice of social masculinity urged would seem to require more than a subsistence income.
In turn, their prosecution served to reinforce the establishment in its role as upholder of the social and moral order.
Observers worried that these unemployed upholders of the old order could derail political reforms and subsequent majority rule.
