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Definition of Foreswore
1. foreswear [v] - See also: foreswear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreswore
Literary usage of Foreswore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"Then, sometime in July or August 1985, he orally foreswore his interest in any
profits of the Enterprise.130 He stated that after he foreswore his profits, ..."
2. Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope (1859)
"Frank Gresham, when twitted with being a Whig, foreswore the De Courcy family;
and then, when ridiculed as having been thrown over by the Tories, foreswore ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1897)
"talised them in the stinging line, “Who starved a sister or foreswore a debt.”
“foreswore a debt” refers to another matter that distressed Lady Mary very ..."
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