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keep one's word



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Idioms and Phrases

Honor one's promises, as in You can count on Richard; he'll keep his word . This expression employs word in the sense of “a promise,” a usage dating from the late 1500s. For an antonym, see go back on .
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For instance, to love one’s parents, respect other people’s property, to keep one’s word, etc., is right; to harm those who have done us no harm, to deceive and lie, to be ungrateful towards our benefactors, and unfaithful to our friends, etc., is wrong.

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Still, she had promised, and one should keep one’s word unless the keeping becomes impossible.

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If you have promised things to other people—— My father always said that one must keep one's word.'

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But the good faith, inculcated by sound reason and religion, is not hereby made void; for neither reason nor Scripture teaches one to keep one's word in every case.

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He showed how much more creditable were the artless virtues of honesty and truthfulness; how better it was to keep one's word, to be kind-hearted and dutiful.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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