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for·swear
also fore·swear (fôr-swâr′)v. for·swore (-swôr′), for·sworn (-swôrn′), for·swear·ing, for·swears
v.tr.
1.
a. To decide or declare that one will not or will no longer engage in (an activity or habit, for example): a political group that has forsworn violence.
b. To decide or declare that one will not or will no longer use or be associated with (something): "He had cast in his lot with the lions and forsworn the lambs" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
c. To disavow under oath: "He was forced to take an oath forswearing heretical views" (Garry Wills).
2. To make (oneself) guilty of perjury.
v.intr.
Idiom: To swear falsely; commit perjury
be forsworn
To commit perjury.
[Middle English forsweren, from Old English forswerian : for-, wrongly; see for- + swerian, to swear; see swear.]
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forswear
(fɔːˈswɛə)vb, -swears, -swearing, -swore or -sworn
1. (tr) to reject or renounce with determination or as upon oath
2. (tr) to deny or disavow absolutely or upon oath: he forswore any knowledge of the crime.
3. (Law) to perjure (oneself)
[Old English forswearian]
forˈswearer n
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for•swear
(fɔrˈswɛər)v. -swore, -sworn, -swearing. v.t.
1. to renounce under oath; abjure: to forswear one's sinful ways.
2. to deny vehemently or under oath.
3. to perjure (oneself).
v.i. 4. to swear falsely; commit perjury.
[before 900]
for•swear′er, n.
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forswear
Past participle: forsworn
Gerund: forswearing
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Verb | 1. | forswear - formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs" |
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forswear
verb
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forswear
also foreswearverb
1. To give up a possession, claim, or right:
2. To make untrue declarations:
Law: perjure.
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Translations
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forswear
[fɔːˈswɛəʳ] (forswore (pt) (forsworn (pp))) VT (frm) → abjurar de, renunciar ato forswear o.s (= perjure o.s.) → perjurarse
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forswear
[fɔːrˈswɛər] vt (= renounce) [violence, weapons, ambition, claim, possessions] → renoncer àCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
forswear
pret <forswore> ptp <forsworn>vt
(= renounce) → abschwören (+dat); he has forsworn smoking → er hat hoch und heilig versprochen, nicht mehr zu rauchen
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forswear
(foːˈsweə) – past tense forswore (foːˈswoː) : past participle forsworn (foːˈswoːn) – verb to give up; to stop. He has forsworn all his bad habits.
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