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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I doubt he will forswear himselfe rather than part with Gillam's gold which is in his hands.
From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by J. Franklin (John Franklin) Jameson
If it be to come soon I will forswear myself and be no longer your woman.'
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford Madox Ford
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
I will forswear Joanna and the trade of arms.
From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The wretches will forswear the sacred'st ties, Cringing for life.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus
