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fore·swear
(fôr-swâr′)v.
Variant of forswear.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
foreswear
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for•swear
(fɔrˈswɛər)v.-swore, -sworn, -swearing.v.t.
1. to renounce under oath; abjure: to forswear one's sinful ways.
2. to deny vehemently or under oath.
3. to perjure (oneself).
v.i. 4. to swear falsely; commit perjury.
[before 900]
for•swear′er,n.
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Verb | 1. | foreswear - do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas" |
2. | foreswear - turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" disclaim - renounce a legal claim or title to |
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forswear
also foreswearverb
1.To give up a possession, claim, or right:
2.To make untrue declarations:
Law:perjure.
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"Our provision of foreign assistance is a tool of US power and influence, and we're not going toforeswear that just because we have the obligation to impose some sanctions against Russia," the official said.
Trump wants to replace the JCPOA with a 'comprehensive' agreement binding Iran toforeswear fissile material production forever; accept intrusive inspections of Iranian nuclear and military facilities; and freeze its long-range missile programme.
To do so, to respond to this imperative, my view is that we need toforeswear further NATO growth and make room and arrangements for Ukraine to trade well with both Europe and Russia, while posing a security threat to neither--and to have the space and peace and quiet it needs to try to reunite, recover, reform and succeed.
Complications ensue, with this moral dilemma at the center: should the detainees swear allegiance to the United States andforeswear any to the Japanese emperor?
He proposed a chivalrous code of conduct for outer space security that essentially asks all capable militaries to voluntarilyforeswear making space a shooting gallery and instead focus on:
If the offender made a degrading claim against your person, symbolically saying, "I count but you do not," then his apology can be an attempt to retract that claim, to say, "I was wrong, you do count." In light of this retraction, you have articulate grounds toforeswear resentment that do not compromise your judgment of the offense, the offender, or yourself.
It is a pride that I shall neverforeswear. It is a pride that will be with me till the day I die for I am proud to be the son and grandson of back-street Brummie and I am proud to belong to their people.
First, any physician who chooses to enter into a private contract with a patient mustforeswear all Medicare reimbursement for a two year period.
Are we toforeswear the punishment of sexual assault by penal confinement?
Medevedev can write freely about his contemporaries because he is prepared toforeswear the status or material advantages they might offer him.
Britain, which in recent weeks had pushed European countries to abstain on the statehood vote, has requested that Palestiniansforeswear applying to the ICC in return for changing the British vote to a "yes".
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