2. Verb. (past participle of forswear) ¹
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Definition of Forsworn
1. forswear [v] - See also: forswear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forsworn
Literary usage of Forsworn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hedaya, Or Guide: A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr] [al-Marghīnānī, Charles Hamilton (1870)
"that is, into a Serai, and he afterwards enter a place which is desolate and in
ruins, he is not forsworn : but if a person swear that " he will not enter ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1824)
"So, if he say that A. was forsworn, and add such words as denote him to be ...
He was forsworn in his answer to A.'s bill in chancery ; if he allege, ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Yet, save thou back'st it by an oath forsworn, Thou shalt not by this practice
bear the prize." Then, to his horses turning, cried, and said : 540 " Be ye ..."
4. Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton (1882)
"To ALL WICKED AND forsworn SINNERS. Shewing the sad and dreadful Example of
Nicholas Newsom and David Higham, who were drinking in a Public House in Dudley ..."
5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1864)
"... then the advisers of the Crown would be careful not to recommend a man hostile
to those principles which he will be forsworn if he neglects to uphold. ..."
6. The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge, including the dramas of Wallenstein by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1829)
"Thou hast forsworn the ancient colours, Blind man! yet trustest to thy ancient
fortunes. Profaner of the altar and the hearth, Against thy Emperor and ..."
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