"keep counsel" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps counsel",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping counsel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept counsel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept counsel",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "keep<,,kept> counsel"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep one's counsel."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_counsel-en-verb-tHquUgPX",
      "links": [
        [
          "keep one's counsel",
          "keep one's counsel"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To keep one's counsel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep counsel"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps counsel",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping counsel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept counsel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept counsel",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> counsel"
      },
      "expansion": "keep counsel (third-person singular simple present keeps counsel, present participle keeping counsel, simple past and past participle kept counsel)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep one's counsel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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          "keep one's counsel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To keep one's counsel."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep counsel"
}