Grants
Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Both words in one sentence
- Population Control: The Machine grants or denies permissions for both reproduction and euthanasia in order to keep the population stable.
Source: Literature / The Machine Stops -
God Was My Copilot: Because Lucifer grants his agents Super-Hellfire, to keep the balance, Uriel chooses his own champion to be granted power.
Source: Literature / Small Favor - Raziel renames him Jonathan Shadowhunter, first of the Nephilim, and grants him the Mortal Instruments: the Mortal Cup to make more Nephilim, the Mortal Sword to keep honesty, and the Mortal Glass to protect the lake and Idris from demons and mundanes.
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