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单词 to keep one's word
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to keep one's word
e. to keep one's word: to honour one's promise; = as good as one's word at good adj., n., adv., and int. Phrases 4e. Similarly (now archaic) to hold one's word.
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OE Homily: Sermonem Angelorum Nomina (Corpus Cambr. 419) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 230 Gif ge nyllað healdan eower word and eower wedd, ge þonne beoð adilegode of ealra lifigendra bocum.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4145 For þat weord þat ich þe sende, bi mine liue ich hit halde.
c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) l. 468 (MED) Nedes þou most þi word hold.
a1450 MS Bodl. 779 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1889) 82 396 (MED) Hold þy woord, ic þe rede.
1524 tr. J. de Bourbon Begynnynge & Foundacyon Holy Hospytall sig. Eij They fered that ye Turke wolde not holde his worde.
1578 J. Rogers Displaying Secte Heretiques sig. E.vi v The Turke likewise is..diligent in prayer, seuere in keeping his worde and promise.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 267 Lys. I will keepe my word, with thee. Dem. I would I had your bond..Ile not trust your word. View more context for this quotation
1715 J. Vanbrugh tr. F. C. Dancourt Country House ii. 22 You must behave your self like a Woman of Honour, and keep your Word.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xxii. 165 I swore upon the rood, Neither to stop, nor turn, nor rest,..In life or death I hold my word!
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lxxx. 346 A gentleman should always keep his word to a lady!
1904 W. S. Blunt Fand ii, in Poet. Wks. (1914) II. 323 How shall I hold my word? I have promised..To yield him to his wife.
1963 J. Hitrec tr. I. Andríc Bosnian Chron. xxiii. 362 The Muscovites..were bad neighbors and warmongers and never kept their word.
2003 J. Mullaney We'll be Back 149 It's not finished yet; the West must keep its word and help rebuild the country.
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