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Definition of Keep on
1. Verb. Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature. "This garment retains its shape even after many washings"
Generic synonyms: Keep Up, Prolong, Sustain
Related verbs: Continue, Persist In
Derivative terms: Continuation
Definition of Keep on
1. Verb. (idiomatic) persist or continue ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To remain in an existing position. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keep On
Literary usage of Keep on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It was passive rather than active, the duty to keep on her course. If, therefore,
the schooner did not change her course, so as *to embarrass the steamer ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Uniat Churches as the harvest gathered from this episode during the years that
followed. groups of the Greek-Slav Rite keep on establishing themselves, ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"... and that the latter will constantly keep on hand and sell such patterns, and
none other, and will make monthly payments of accrued indebtedness, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1885)
"... and does not apply to two ships whieh must, if both keep on their ... do not
apply to two ships whieh must, if both keep on their ..."
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