Ascend
Ascend verb - To move or extend upward.
Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- She doesn't keep people out of the astral plane, she instead guides those who have been fortunate enough to ascend.
Source: Literature / Astral Dawn -
Turns out the Great Ones are good-hearted and want to help humanity ascend to their level, but the Healing Church has long been abusing their gifts and the Great Ones themselves to keep power.
Source: Religious Horror -
Not Bad: When he lost the title to Jeff Hardy, he rationalized it as Jeff briefly finding a way to ascend to his level but that Jeff obviously could not keep it up.
Source: Wrestling / Austin Aries
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