forswearing
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English forswerynge; equivalent to for- + swearing.
Verb[edit]
forswearing
- present participle and gerund of forswear
Noun[edit]
forswearing (plural forswearings)
- The act of one who forswears.
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]