keeping
noun/ˈkiːpɪŋ/
1
Conformity or harmony.
- The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.
- The foreground of this painting is not in keeping.
2
Charge or care.
- His happiness is in his own keeping.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
3
Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
- The cattle have good keeping.
- The work of many hands, which earns my keeping1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 75: