Definition of "retained" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of retain. (verb)

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• "Mr. Whyte is also the first jockey in Hong Kong to ever break four digits in career victories and has been champion jockey for the past 11 seasons—a title retained Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse to conclude the 2011 racing season."
• "The term retained the denotation of an aesthetic sensibility tied to a “pursuit”, and gained codification; you might say that the meaning changed from “pursuit” to “traditional pursuit” because even though the suffix occasionally appears on the tail-end of practices not thought of as traditionally Japanese “yakyuudou” comes to mind, the modern connotation is one of adopting an ancestral Japanese mindset."
• "The term retained this meaning in the liturgy of the church, [91] and for that reason people continue to pray for spiritual"