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The art of refusing to let go, dressed up as virtue.
means The act of holding on to, maintaining, or caring for something or someone — whether possessions, secrets, livestock, or one's word.
from From Old English 'cepan,' to seize, hold, or watch over — a word whose earlier meaning is murky, possibly tied to keeping watch or guard. The '-ing' suffix turns the verb into the ongoing act. Notice how the old sense of 'watching' shaded into 'holding,' so that to keep something was first to keep an eye on it, then to keep it for good.
- old english
- From cepan, meaning to seize or watch over
- safe keeping
- Implies danger you're quietly admitting exists
- keeping up
- A race nobody remembers agreeing to enter
- book keeping
- Civilization runs on someone tracking who owes whom
- for keeps
- Childhood's most binding legal contract
keep of rochester castle — 12th-century stone donjon in kent, england, one of the tallest and most massive keep structures in europe
the keep film — 1983 michael mann film starring scott glenn set in a nazi-occupied romanian fortress during wwii