forsworn

[ fawr-swawrn, -swohrn ]

/ fɔrˈswɔrn, -ˈswoʊrn /

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verb

past participle of forswear.

adjective

perjured.

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Also fore·sworn .

OTHER WORDS FROM forsworn

for·sworn·ness, nounun·for·sworn, adjective

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How to use forsworn in a sentence

But the vows which pain had extorted were forsworn on the return of health.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|Edward Gibbon
He did not want to dance between those white arms so easily forsworn.
The Cup of Fury|Rupert Hughes
If I called the recusants forsworn and perjured, thinkest thou the pure in Heaven charged my soul with a sin?
The Prince of India, Volume I|Lew. Wallace
Once again I must seek those adventures which I had forsworn when my evil star shone so brightly over a gold mine.
The Ivory Child|H. Rider Haggard

The United States had forsworn knowledge, and for a time no one had been able to say from whence they had come.
Where I Wasn't Going|Walt Richmond

British Dictionary definitions for forsworn

forsworn

/ (fɔːˈswɔːn) /

verb

the past participle of forswear

Derived forms of forsworn

forswornness, noun

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