Definition of Swarving

1. swarve [v] - See also: swarve

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swarving

swarthinesses
swarthness
swarths
swarthy
swartiness
swarting
swartish
swartness
swartnesses
swarts
swarty
swartzite
swarve
swarved
swarves
swarving (current term)
swash
swashbuckle
swashbuckled
swashbuckler
swashbucklers
swashbuckles
swashbuckling
swashbucklingly
swashed
swasher
swashers
swashes
swashier
swashiest

Literary usage of Swarving

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

1. The Chronicle of Queen Jane: And of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially by John Gough Nichols (1850)
"... miseries and calamities that this realme hath suffred by swarving from that ... and the empire of Grece, he a spectacle unto the world, who, by swarving ..."

2. The Egerton Papers: A Collection of Public and Private Documents, Chiefly by Francis Egerton Ellesmere, John Payne Collier (1840)
"... the matter of succession ; and by swarving therin present civile warre hath followed, and if not sometime present, yet within three discentes after the ..."

3. The Egerton Papers: A Collection of Public and Private Documents, Chiefly by Francis Egerton Ellesmere, John Payne Collier (1840)
"... the matter of succession ; and by swarving therin present civile warre hath followed, and if not sometime present, yet within three discentes after the ..."

4. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"For it is written, by the swarving in the right of succession after the death ... Mary, was like to have risen by swarving from the right line of descent; ..."

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