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单词 to keep faith
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to keep (also †hold) (one's) faith
b. In phrases relating to making, keeping, or breaking a promise, trust, oath, etc., as to keep (also †hold) (one's) faith, to break (one's) faith, to plight (one's) faith, perjure one's faith. [Compare e.g. classical Latin fidem servāre, fidem tenēre, fidem retinēre to keep faith, fidem obligāre to plight faith, fidem frangere, fidem violāre to break faith, Anglo-Norman fiancer fei to pledge one's faith (1297 or earlier), plevir sa fei to pledge one's word (13th cent. or earlier), porter fei to keep faith, lit. ‘to carry faith’, prendre fei to accept someone's word (both late 12th cent.), mentir sa fei to break one's word or pledge (early 12th cent.).]
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise, vow, or pledge [verb (intransitive)]
queatheOE
sweara900
fangc1175
behightc1275
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
vowa1325
avowc1400
to plight (one's) faithc1410
promitc1422
promise1447
creance1477
to take in vow1526
votec1540
depose1610
vum1785
to nail down1859
pledge1928
the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > observe, adhere, or keep a promise [verb (intransitive)]
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
beholda1400
to hold touch (also the touches)c1400
faithc1410
withholda1450
to keep touch1541
adherec1550
as good as one's word (also promise)c1560
inhere1563
watch1608
maximize1875
the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > fail to observe [verb (intransitive)]
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
to break dayc1300
faithc1410
swerve1527
to break touch1594
jeofail1599
recant1599
recede1648
discede1650
renege1651
shab1699
shaffle1781
weasel1956
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [verb (intransitive)] > commit perjury
forsweara1000
manswearOE
perjure1537
perjurate1623
pejerate1656
perjure one's faith1697
c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 125 Þe gentiles keped hir feiþ [L. fidem..servavere] to þe childe unto þe deienge of Robert.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 89 Non of hem holdeth feyth to another.
?c1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer Former Age (Cambr. Ii.3.21) (1878) l. 48 Euerych of hem his feith to oother kepte.
a1450 Seven Sages (Cambr. Dd.1.17) (1845) l. 3274 For glotonye he brake hys fayth.
?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. bj A man ought..to kepe hys feyth vnto his frendes.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin ix. 473 The better to make you serue for example of punishment to such as accursedly breake their faith to their soueraigne Prince.
c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta ii. ii Faith is not to be held with heretics.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 283 Berowne hath plighted Fayth to me. View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 339 No Faith is to be held with such as differ from them.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 36 I my Nisa's perjur'd Faith deplore.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite 78 For you alone, I broke my Faith with injur'd Palamon.
1790 M. O. Warren Ladies of Castile iii. ii, in Poems 137 By St. Peter's key, I've sworn, nor will revoke my plighted faith.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (1875) II. xv. 296 He [sc. Edward I] saw what was best for his age and people; he led the way and kept faith.
1914 W. H. Taft U. S. & Peace iii. 118 On what ground ought we to evade or avoid the effect of the plighted faith of the nation?
1942 National Geographic Mag. June 696/2 But to take idle land away from native Fijians and give it to land-hungry Indians would be to break faith with natives who entrusted—actually ceded—their islands to Britain.
1963 Times 21 Oct. 11/3 It is never right to excuse the breaking of faith..by a government.
2001 Estonian News Agengy (Nexis) 27 Apr. Mois himself has on several occasions plighted his faith to the coalition agreement in Tallinn.
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