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Definition of Oaths
1. oath [n] - See also: oath
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oaths
Literary usage of Oaths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"AN ACT to authorize Notaries Public to take and certify oaths, affirmations, and
acknowledgments in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ..."
2. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1845)
"When administering oaths to Prince of Wales. To King's younger son. ... When the
Prince of Wales is to take the oaths for any purpose in the Court of ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"The more important of these means are oaths, hostages, pledges, occupation of
... oaths are a very old means of securing the oaths. performance of treaties, ..."
4. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy by William Paley (1835)
"What oaths do not bind. 6. In what sense oaths are to be interpreted. 1. THE forms
of oaths, like other religious ceremonies, have in all ages been various ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1834)
"The first was, were oaths in themselves a violation of the Christian ... Secondly,
though the Christian religion did not positively condemn oaths when it ..."
6. Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings ; Extending from by Daniel Defoe, William Lee (1869)
"On Unnecessary oaths. AJ, Sept. i4.—I knew a very good Man, a thorough hearty
Whig, a mortal Enemy to the Jacobites, and to all Jacobite Princes, ..."
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