forswear
verb (used with object)
to reject or renounce under oath.
will forswear
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future tenseof forswear.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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They will forswear themselves, And when you urge them with it, their replies Are, that Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
The witnesses will forswear themselves, not, like our 'posters,' for half a crown, but gratis, because the plaintiff or defendant is a fellow-tribesman.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
You have been my only friend, and I have tried to forget …" "I will forswear Kali forever," he said fervently, "and shed no blood for all my life!
From The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
It may be, of course, that the young men and women of the lower bourgeoisie will forswear the dot, for it would be but one more old custom giving way to necessity.
From The Living Present by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
"I think on the 1st of January, if you have no objections, Mrs. Carraway, I will forswear utilitarianism—and you may remove the golf-balls from the cloisonné vase as soon as you choose."
From The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life by John Kendrick Bangs
