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Oath

noun

(pl. oaths)

Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger. Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, swearing, swearword.

A commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury. Synonym: swearing.

A solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior.

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... command. The Fifth Division, he swore, could hold their own with any soldiers in the Peninsula. He was furious with the seven hundred and fifty volunteers, and, evading the Marquis's order, which was implicit rather than direct, he added an oath that these interlopers should never lead his ...

— Corporal Sam and Other Stories • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... he was of opinion that they should not wait for the dogs to rise, but that they should march forward and set upon them until they had trounced the devilment out of them. "Give me a knife and a bucket!" he cried with an oath, and could hardly be withheld from setting forth alone to deal with the spokesman of ...

— The Green Flag • Arthur Conan Doyle

... since he must leave behind his friend. In his train rode all those knights who had drawn together to that town for the great tournament. Not a knight of them all but plighted faith to follow where he led, and to hold himself recreant and shamed if he failed his oath. ...

— French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France • Marie de France

... life dear, and set as little value upon their own. Devoted to the principles of a frantic patriotism, they were content to sacrifice to its claims the clearest dictates of humanity and religion; being at all times ready to bind themselves by an oath that they would neither eat nor drink until they had slain the enemy of their nation or of their God. This was the school which supplied that execrable faction, who added tenfold to the miseries of Jerusalem in the day of her ...

— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell

... every person who shall seek to avail himself of this proclamation shall take and subscribe the following oath before any authority in the Philippine archipelago authorized to administer oaths, namely: "I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I recognize and accept the supreme authority of the United States of America in the Philippine Islands and will maintain ...

— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement • Theodore Roosevelt

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