Lexic.us

Definition of Forswearing

1. Noun. The act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.).

Definition of Forswearing

1. Verb. (present participle of forswear) ¹

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Definition of Forswearing

1. forswear [v] - See also: forswear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forswearing

Literary usage of Forswearing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of by Roger, Roger of Hoveden, Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
"But, if there were no swearing, there would be no forswearing, a thing which is still more nearly allied ..."

2. The works of Thomas Goodwin by Thomas Goodwin (1863)
"... when the same Peter had played the devil worse by far, in forswearing his Saviour, and had acted the devil in his colours—for the devil is a blasphemer, ..."

3. The London Medical Gazette (1829)
"... and an instant forswearing of those proceedings by which he has so disgusted the profession, that will prevent it from being banished, by acclamation, ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of by New York (State). Supreme Court, William G. Banks, George Caines (1885)
"He sets forth the court in which the forswearing took place, and thus gives ... 288,(a) the defendant justified by setting forth a forswearing in a court of ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Slander and Libel: And Incidentally of Malicious by Thomas Starkie (1830)
"But in case of a charge of forswearing, unless from the accompanying words, it be clear that a judicial forswearing was meant, the plaintiff must show upon ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Slander, Libel, Scandalum Magnatum, and False by Thomas Starkie (1813)
"But in case of a charge of forswearing, unless from the accompanying words, it is clear that a judicial forswearing was meant, the plaintiff must shew upon ..."

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