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Significados de forswear em inglês

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abjurar
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retractar-se

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

abjurar
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Examples for "retract"
Examples for "retract"
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I have spoken; thou hast heard; I add nothing and retract nothing.
Historical Miniatures
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Given the chance to retract the statement, Ford stuck to his guns.
Wired
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On second thought, I retract my earlier callous remarks about the Moon.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
4
He called on the police minister to retract his assertions and apologise.
The South African
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Percy Simelane The government has demanded that the newspaper retract its story.
The South African
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Does it mean I recant on everything I've ever said or done?
The Guardian
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All I had to do was recant and I'd be all right.
Life
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Pointing to her parents, they implored her for their sake to recant.
Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion
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Many were put to death because they refused to recant their faith.
The Guardian
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Why, why am I to recant and accept the Rodgers' articles now?
Vanity Fair
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Wizards abjure all ties to family and kingdom when they become neophytes.
Spellwright
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The men of yonder village consent to abjure the worship of Apollo.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 / A Magazi...
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Du Bruel entered public life; she made him abjure his Royalist opinions.
A Prince of Bohemia
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It is not all women but all female confidence tricksters I abjure.
Rogues
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He did not pretend that she was to abjure her Protestant faith.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 06: 1560-61
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He did not, however, resile from Mrs Bennett's description of how the policy actually would apply.
Radio NZ
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Mr Morrison said the move was "common sense" and he would not resile from it.
News.com.au
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In the end, Alan Rusbridger had little choice but to resile from becoming chair of the Scott Trust.
The Irish Times
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David Seymour isn't about to resile from an issue he is passionate about, so that is not a viable tactic.
Radio NZ
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The head of the Auckland SPCA says he won't resile from his comments about dog attacks and… Read more Audio
Radio NZ
Uso de forswear em inglês
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The financial incentives are too strong for firms to forswear data collection.
Reuters
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You cannot forswear yourself, and you cannot suddenly make an immense fortune.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction
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Whatever our powers may be, we have no right to forswear them.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
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I would not forswear myself for all the money in the world!
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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You say it is friendship-butif this is friendship, I'll forswear love.
Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion
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But, indeed, I can do you little harm: you'll forswear this again.
Measure for Measure
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But the moment I hear it is jesuitical I forswear it.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
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Is Starfleet willing to forswear any claims of property ownership in Ms. Lal?
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
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The group has been lobbying candidates to forswear Wall Street donations.
Reuters
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Will you forswear business and help me entertain the girls to-morrow?
Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
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Wall, if I ain't almost riddy to forswear my kintry and turn Turk.
The Gold Hunters' Adventures; Or, Life in Australia
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I hope you don't expect him to forswear himself by purporting to represent Ireland.
The Irish Times
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Glories of the world, the love of women; did not all priests forswear these?
The Grey Cloak
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Jesus Christ wants you to forswear that habit in your will, determination, and purpose.
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at ...
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There is no help here unless you forswear your duty.
The Rustlers of Pecos County
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The ultimatum Drenka delivered was to forswear fucking others or their affair was over.
The new yorker
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