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Forswear
Forswear meaning
To renounce or deny something, especially under oath. | To commit perjury; to break an oath.
Example sentences (7)
And if you are urging them to forswear only attacks, does that mean you are fine with more nuanced ones?
According to my analysis of your astrological indicators, your ability to discover, attract and benefit from wonders and marvels will thrive to the degree that you forswear drugs and alcohol and artificial enhancements.
God knows how many flaming wrecks it will take for the locals to forswear their boy-done-good.
Bomford et al. 1990, p. 209. Members of the association were expected to forswear participation in the Salon.
Israel responded it would begin economic sanctions unless Hamas agreed to accept prior Israeli-Palestinian agreements, forswear violence, and recognize Israel's right to exist, which Hamas rejected.
Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.
The term comes from the Latin abjurare, "to forswear".