Usually means: Renounce under oath; abandon forever.
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  1. forswear: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. forswear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forswear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forswear: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forswear: Vocabulary.com
  6. Forswear, forswear: Wordnik
  7. forswear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. forswear: Wiktionary
  9. forswear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forswear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. forswear: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. forswear: Dictionary.com
  13. forswear: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Forswear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Forswear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. forswear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. forswear: Rhymezone
  18. Forswear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. forswear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. forswear: Free Dictionary
  21. forswear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. forswear: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. forswear: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forswear: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FORSWEAR: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
verb:  (intransitive or reflexive) To commit perjury; to break an oath.

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