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verb

Forswear v. t. (past forswore; past part. forsworn; pres. part. forswearing)

To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. "I... do forswear her."

To deny upon oath. "Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold!"

To forswear one's self, to swear falsely; to perjure one's self. "Thou shalt not forswear thyself."

Synonyms: See Perjure.

Forswear v. i. (past forswore; past part. forsworn; pres. part. forswearing) To swear falsely; to commit perjury.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forswear" Quotes from Famous Books

... which Naaman the Syrian offered to the prophet Elijah as a reason for a personal dispensation. Hardly more possible it was that a camel should go through the eye of a needle, than that a Roman senator should forswear those inveterate superstitions with which his own system of aristocracy had been riveted for better and worse. As soon would the Venetian senator, the gloomy "magnifico" of St. Mark, have consented to Renounce ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... a Talmudist, like all modern Jews, and he tried to make me believe that he was very devout; but I once extracted a smile of approbation from him by telling him that he would forswear Moses if the Pope would make him a cardinal. As the son of a rabbi he was learned in all the ceremonies of his religion, but like most men he considered the essence of a religion to lie in its discipline and ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... Rather would I drown in the Dvina than a drop of the baptismal water should touch my forehead. To be forced to kneel before the hideous images, to kiss the cross,—sooner would I rush out to the mob that was passing, and let them tear my vitals out. To forswear the One God, to bow before idols,—rather would I be seized with the plague, and be eaten up by vermin. I was only a little girl, and not very brave; little pains made me ill, and I cried. But there was no pain that I would not bear—no, none—rather than submit ...

— The Promised Land • Mary Antin

... fired to sing The snail's discreet degrees, A rhapsody of sauntering, A gloria of ease; Proclaiming their's the baser part Who consciously forswear The delicate and gentle art Of never ...

— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... the future of Klagenfurt was reserved for plebiscitary determination. Instead of an Empire Austria became the fragment of a nation, divorced from the rest of the German people by the fears of the Entente, required like Germany to forswear conscription, denied all access to the sea, and left with regard to the size of its territories and weakness of its frontiers in much the same situation as the Serbia she had attacked in 1914. Protest was as ...

— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

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