keep counsel en · VERB
Meanings
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(intransitive) To keep one's counsel.
A lady, sir, as you will find, / Keeps counsel, or she speaks her mind, / Means what she says and scorns to fence / And palter with feigned innocence.
1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| keeps counsel | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| kept counsel | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| kept counsel | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| keeping counsel | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |