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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And now you must promise me that if discovery comes, you will forswear all knowledge of my being here.
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Kennedy, Sara Beaumont
My Liege, he's at me now agen to do it; speak, Deny it if thou canst; examine him Whilst he's hot, for he'l cool agen, he will forswear it.
From The Maids Tragedy by Fletcher, John
Upon my life he will forswear the debt: And for we'll have the sum shall not be slight, Say that he owes you near three thousand pound: Good brother, let it be done immediately.
From The London Prodigal; "by William Shakespeare." as it was played by the King's Majesties servants. by Unknown
"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 Bangs, John Kendrick
"I will forswear Calliope and nail my flag to Clio; I will no longer write poetry, I will write history and make it."
From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell
