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1555 H. Braham Inst. Gentleman sig. Eiii^v Now touching the seconde and pryncypall poynte in a Gentleman a soldier or man of warre, it is promes kepyng.

1612 Capt. J. Smith Proc. Eng. Colonie in Virginia xi. 90 This honest, proper, good, promis-keeping king, of all the rest did ever best affect vs.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 73 He was euer precise in promise keeping . View more context for this quotation

1772 J. W. Fletcher Logica Genevensis x. 160 A merciful, gracious, promise-keeping God.

1821 L. Hunt in Examiner 11 Mar. 146/1 Faith (not promise-keeping, but religious faith) was to have ‘kings for its nursing fathers’.

1884 A. De Vere Poet. Wks. III. ii. ix. 54 At dawn with feast and military honours, We'll thank the just and promise-keeping gods Who have led us thus far forth on victory's way.

2000 Econ. & Philos. 16 28 Respect for acknowledged property rights seems to require a convention of mutual restraint that is followed by everyone in a society, whereas promise-keeping requires only that the promiser and the promisee are parties to the same convention.