Definition of swear

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Swear (v. t.) To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath..

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Forswear :: Forswear (v. i.) To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations..
Swear :: Swearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swea.
Unswear :: Unswear (v. i.) To recall an oath.
Perjury :: Perjury (v.) False swearing.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge..
Ban :: Ban (v. i.) To curse; to swear.
Profane :: Profane (a.) Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue..
Forswear :: Forswear (v. i.) To swear falsely; to commit perjury.
Forswear :: Forswear (v. i.) To deny upon oath.
Forswearer :: Forswearer (n.) One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
Misswear :: Misswear (v. i.) To swear falsely.
Swough :: Sworn () p. p. of Swear.
Abjuration :: Abjuration (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return..
Swearer :: Swearer (n.) One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration.
Swear :: Swear (v. t.) To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath..
Swear :: Swear (v. i.) To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc..
Sworn :: Swore () imp. of Swear.
Unswear :: Unswear (v. t.) To recant or recall, as an oath; to recall after having sworn; to abjure..
Forsworn :: Forsworn () p. p. of Forswear.
Outswear :: Outswear (v. t.) To exceed in swearing.
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