All 3 Uses of
forswear
in
Henry IV, Part 2
- I'll forswear keeping house, afore I'll be in these tirrits and frights.†
Scene 2.4 *
- If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.†
Scene 4.3
- I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this,—you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles.†
Scene 5.4
Definition:
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(forswear as in: forswear my country of birth) to decide to stop doing something; or to renounce or disavow something