FORSWEAR

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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

2.
v.

To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! Dryden. To forswear one's self, to swear falsely; to peforswear thyself."

3.
v.

To swear falsely; to commit perjury. Shak.

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