Both Uses of
forswear
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- As waggish boys in game themselves forswear, So the boy Love is perjur'd everywhere: For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne, He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine; And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt, So he dissolv'd, and showers of oaths did melt.†
Scene 1.1
- Fairies, skip hence; I have forsworn his bed and company.†
Scene 2.1 *
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