keeping
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keeping (countable and uncountable, plural keepings)
- conformity or harmony.
- The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.
- The foreground of this painting is not in keeping.
- charge or care.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
- His happiness is in his own keeping.
- Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
- The cattle have good keeping.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 75:
- The work of many hands, which earns my keeping
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