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Meanings of forswear in English

Portuguese
abjurar
Catalan
retractar-se

Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.

        abjurar
        Usage of forswear in English
        1
        The financial incentives are too strong for firms to forswear data collection.
        Reuters
        2
        You cannot forswear yourself, and you cannot suddenly make an immense fortune.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction
        3
        Whatever our powers may be, we have no right to forswear them.
        Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
        4
        I would not forswear myself for all the money in the world!
        The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
        5
        You say it is friendship-butif this is friendship, I'll forswear love.
        Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion
        6
        But, indeed, I can do you little harm: you'll forswear this again.
        Measure for Measure
        7
        But the moment I hear it is jesuitical I forswear it.
        Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
        8
        Is Starfleet willing to forswear any claims of property ownership in Ms. Lal?
        Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
        9
        The group has been lobbying candidates to forswear Wall Street donations.
        Reuters
        10
        Will you forswear business and help me entertain the girls to-morrow?
        Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
        11
        Wall, if I ain't almost riddy to forswear my kintry and turn Turk.
        The Gold Hunters' Adventures; Or, Life in Australia
        12
        I hope you don't expect him to forswear himself by purporting to represent Ireland.
        The Irish Times
        13
        Glories of the world, the love of women; did not all priests forswear these?
        The Grey Cloak
        14
        Jesus Christ wants you to forswear that habit in your will, determination, and purpose.
        Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at ...
        15
        There is no help here unless you forswear your duty.
        The Rustlers of Pecos County
        16
        The ultimatum Drenka delivered was to forswear fucking others or their affair was over.
        The new yorker
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