Keeping
Keeping noun - The following of a custom, rule, or law.
Usage example: the keeping of religious laws and traditions
Violation
Violation noun - A breaking of a moral or legal code.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Kirk destroys a computer that was keeping a planet's people in a stagnant, mollycoddled existence, and argues that this isn't a Prime Directive violation because the people didn't really have their own culture at all.
Source: Living Is More Than Surviving - Keeping up the track record for Compile Heart, trying to get any of the secret characters or endings in Trillion: God of Destruction requires precise events and Violation of Common Sense.
Source: Guide Dang It / Eastern RPG
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