Keeping and Ward

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Keeping noun - Responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something.

Usage example: put the house keys into a neighbor's secure keeping while they were on vacation

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Ward is a synonym for keeping in custody topic. In some cases you can use "Ward" instead a noun "Keeping".

Nearby Words: keep, keeper

Ward noun - Responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something.

Usage example: gained the ward of his cousin upon the death of her parents

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Keeping is a synonym for ward in custody topic. You can use "Keeping" instead a noun "Ward".

Nearby Words: warden, wardship, warder, warded, wardroom

old	old keeping	old ward
good	good keeping	good ward
full	full keeping	full ward
perfect	perfect keeping	perfect ward
Other adjectives: true, single, new, traditional, former, modern.

Actual misfortune "fills the need" for misfortune in keeping demons away, and may well already have been caused by a demon, so why ward them off when they're already here?

Source: Jewish Complaining
Call Back Nurse Redheart still has trouble keeping the Mane Six quiet in the maternity ward.

Source: Fanfic / Earth and Sky
This entailed keeping over a dozen Physical Gods held back long enough for his own army to escape, and he did it with one ward.

Source: One Man Army / Literature

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