Definition
To refrain from speaking; to be silent.
In Context
- "Thurio: How likes she my discourse? Proteus: Ill, when you talk of war. Thurio: But well, when I discourse of love and peace? Julia: [Aside] But better, indeed, when you hold your peace."
- "I was dumb with silence, I held my peace"
- "Ne'er hold my peace, and ne'er stand still: I fart with twenty ladies by; They call me beast; and what care I?"
- "[U]nless he can give better arguments than he has given to show the truth of his observations, it would be well for him to hold his peace."
- "Washington was still waiting last week for Franklin Roosevelt to say or do something about Sit-Down. . . . But if he held his peace on one topic, he spoke out boldly on another."
- "Supermarket suppliers with a grievance have been urged to speak up soon or forever hold their peace."