Kept and Sacrificed

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Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.

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Sacrificed is an antonym for kept.

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Kept is an antonym for sacrificed.

A Loa in the First Kalpa implies the demons are immortal in their own way due to having sacrificed their ability to change, while humans kept the same ability at the cost of being mortal.

Source: Creative Sterility
Said dead atheist psychic posthuman is being kept alive (barely) by technology that only he understood, which requires that thousands of psychic humans be sacrificed to him each day.

Source: Hopeless War
The safety of handling the powder cartouches was sacrificed in order to maximize the firing speed, and the flashproof doors were kept open to enable quick delivery of the powder.

Source: Attack! Attack! Attack!

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