Keeping
Keeping noun - The following of a custom, rule, or law.
Usage example: the keeping of religious laws and traditions
Sin
Sin noun - A breaking of a moral or legal code.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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When Shirley asks her if fellatio counts as a mortal or venal sin as a joke, Gloria, keeping her cool, says she isn't familiar with the word and then asks Shirley to explain to the whole class what "fellatio" means.
Source: Film / Night of the Demons 2 - Tidus being nothing more than a dream and the knowledge that, if the party manages to kill Sin, he will cease to exist, keeping he and Yuna, the two point-of-view characters who fell in love, from having a happy finish to their story even without the Final Summon.
Source: Player Punch / Final Fantasy
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