Preservation vs Retain - What's the difference?
preservation | retain |
The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
* William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
* Ecclesiastes. xxxiv. 16
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To keep in possession or use.
* Milton
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To keep in one's pay or service.
* Addison
To employ by paying a retainer.
To hold secure.
(obsolete) To restrain; to prevent.
(obsolete) To belong; to pertain.
* Boyle
As a noun preservation
is the act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.As a verb retain is
to keep in possession or use.preservation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Nature does not require''
''Her times of preservation, which, perforce''
''I give my tendence to
- The eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, his is ther mighty protection, a preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling.
- Every seneseless thing by nature's light''
''Doth preservation seek, destruction shun
- Our allwise maker has put into man the uneasiness of hunger, thirst and other natural desires, to determine their wills for the preservation of themselves, and the continuation of their species.
retain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Be obedient, and retain / Unalterably firm his love entire.
- A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.
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- A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defence.
- A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness.