Dictionary Entry

forswear

To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.

In a Sentence

“We forswear allegiance and support for the Economic Freedom Fighters.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

thyself forswearthemselves forswearhimself forswearany forswear. forswear

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Poetry examples for “forswear”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The roses and the sod
Will not forswear the wave.
The gift the river gave

Defy their fairness and are unsubdued;
Although they suffer, they may not forswear
The patient ardor of the unpursued.

Or, that oaths made in reverential fear
Of Love, and his wrath, any may forswear?
Or, as true deaths, true marriages untie,

These are prerogatives, they inhere
In thee and thine; none should forswear
Except that he Love's minion were.

May he be scorn'd by one, whom all else scorn,
Forswear to others, what to her he hath sworn,
With fear of missing, shame of getting, torn.

Or, that oaths made in reverential fear
Of Love, and his wrath, any may forswear?
Or, as true deaths, true marriages untie,