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English
Etymology
From Middle English kepen, equivalent to keep + -en.
Verb
keepen
- (obsolete) plural simple present of keep
1584, George Peele, The Arraignment of Paris:Mispeake not al, for his amisse, there bin that keepen flocks,
That never chose but once, nor yet beguiled love with mockes.
1606, N B, Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London: Ed. Allde, for Edward White, , →OCLC, signature H2, verso:They keepen therefore ſilence in their Flight,
Till they haue ſcap'd that mountaine in the night.