Definition of "kept up" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of keep up. (verb)

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• "Catholic memory was kept up through the French Canadians in the service of Mackenzie, Fraser, and the Hudson Bay Company."
• "The reconquest was assured by the retaking of Santa Fé from the hostile Tano, and the slaughter or enslavement of all the defenders, 29 December, 1693, but a spirited resistance was kept up by the various tribes, even at heavy losses, for nearly a year longer."
• "Protestantism it must be said that they have kept up all the Orthodox forms of service as far as possible, crossings, bowings, icons, candles, fastings, and the like, and have regularly maintained monasteries with their monks and nuns."