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单词 to keep state
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to keep (one's) state
P9. to keep (one's) state: to observe the pomp and ceremony befitting a monarch or other person of high rank or status; to behave in a grand or dignified manner; to maintain one's dignity. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > splendour, magnificence, or pomp > exhibit or appear in splendour or magnificence [verb (intransitive)]
triumph1483
to hold one's state1494
to keep (one's) state1549
princea1592
throne1821
pomp1922
1549 J. Ponet tr. B. Ochino Tragoedie Unjuste Usurped Primacie sig. Iiv When it came to the Popes course to speake, bycause he woulde kepe hys state, he commaunded master Hypocryt to speake in hys name.
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. iii. sig. Ev The woorst in her is want of keeping state, and to much descending into inferior and base offices..as to be your Procurer or Pandar. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 161 There was a Brutus once, that would haue brook'd Th' eternall Diuell to keepe his State in Rome, As easily as a King. View more context for this quotation
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 82 Andronicus Palæologus, one that kept the State of an Emperor.
1793 C. Smith Old Manor House IV. xi. 281 The lady, formerly Miss Eliza Woodford, ‘kept her state’; and Orlando..was shewn into a back room.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 73 But keep your ain state wi' them..they will think the mair o' ye.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 57 O Vashti, noble Vashti! Summon'd out She kept her state.
1905 E. Brooke Susan Wooed & Susan Won xxiv. 201 Mr. Wallwood kept his state unassailed.
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