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Definition of Swear in
1. Verb. Administer on oath to. "The speaker of the House swore in the new President"
Definition of Swear in
1. Verb. (transitive) To administer an oath to, as an oath of office or of citizenship. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swear In
Literary usage of Swear in
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"They, or most of them, thou speakest of, can and ' do swear in some cases, but
we cannot swear in any case. If a man ' should steal their cows and horses, ..."
2. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1849)
"And if it had been known, that ever we could swear in any case, since we were a
people, and would not now swear allegiance to the king; then indeed there ..."
3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"They, or most of them thou speakest of, can and do swear in some cases, but we
cannot swear in any case. If a man should steal their cows and horses, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"PC 467, to admit and swear in one ... Ward,(a) where one of the objections taken
to the writ (being a mandamus to the defendant to admit and swear in If. D. ..."
5. The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense: In which the by Emanuel Swedenborg, John Curtis Ager (1894)
"In Isaiah : " He that blesseth himself in the earth let him bless himself in the
God of truth, and he that sweareth in the earth let him swear in the God of ..."
6. Speeches, Messages, and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown: A by Albert Gallatin Brown (1859)
"If she is, then it was clearly the right of the senator from Kentucky this morning
to move, as he did, to swear in her senators, as much so as it would be ..."
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