Definition of "hold on" []

• To grasp or grip firmly. (verb)
• To keep; to store something for someone. (verb)
• Wait a short while. (verb)
• To remain loyal. (verb)
• To persist (verb)

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• "Probabiliorists; so that Probabiliorism had gained a strong hold on theologians when Medina arrived on the scene."
• "Pattie used her secondary limbs to maintain her own hold on the peg-pole."
• "These last few have been days to hold on to: bright sunshine through fat-bottomed clouds; ringlet butterflies flickering over flowering grasses; yellow-and-black-banded cinnabar moth caterpillars twitching as they spun threads to tie themselves to ragwort; bright pink lip-gloss heads of pyramidal orchids – these things once observed becoming dearly held."