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forswears

  • present tense form of forswear (3rd person singular).

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The majority forswears any interest in going after other rights similarly grounded in the right to privacy.

From Washington Post Jun. 24, 2022

It is the rare writer who forswears this paradigm through pessimism or scruple.

From New York Times May 19, 2020

Wotan builds Valhalla to compensate for a loveless marriage; Alberich forswears love to forge the Ring.

From The New Yorker Oct. 10, 2016

That is the voice of today's latest edge, which forswears normality and happiness for the inevitable doom.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 13, 2015

Not until he forswears love will he stretch out his hand to the gold, and found the Plutonic empire for himself.

From The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring by Shaw, Bernard