forswearin a sentence
forswear as in: forswear my country of birth
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The group has forsworn terrorism in favor of negotiating an end to the conflict.forsworn = renounced or disavowed
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She should forswear contributions from special interest groups.forswear = stop (taking)
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Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom. (source)forsworn = commit perjury (lie under oath)
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Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United Stated of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese Emperor, or any other foreign government, power or organization? (source)forswear = renounce (abandon)
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This was a more pleasing tale: the princess swooning at his feet, forswearing her cruel father to be with him. (source)forswearing = abandoning loyalty to
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Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity. (source)forswear = decide not to engage in
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Panicked men and women ran through the alleyways and the streets, screaming, falling, praying to gods their leaders had forsworn. (source)forsworn = renounced or abandoned
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Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor, or any other foreign government, power, or organization? (source)forswear = renounce (abandon)
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"Gared was near as old as I am and longer on the Wall," he went on, "yet it would seem he forswore himself and fled." (source)forswore = abandoned duty
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Every year thousands, forswearing the world, gave themselves to service here.† (source)
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To have lost the godlike conceit that we may do what we will, and not to have acquired a homely zest for doing what we can, shows a grandeur of temper which cannot be objected to in the abstract, for it denotes a mind that, though disappointed, forswears compromise.† (source)
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* *forbid gambling* Hazard is very mother of leasings,* *lies And of deceit, and cursed forswearings: Blasphem' of Christ, manslaughter, and waste also Of chattel* and of time; and furthermo' *property It is repreve,* and contrar' of honour, *reproach For to be held a common hazardour.† (source)
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Those twelve, with Morzan, became the Thirteen Forsworn.† (source)
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Bronzini wondered if this is what happens to men who forswear a woman's tangling touch and love. (source)forswear = decide not to engage in
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Carol forswore herself; declared that Gopher Prairie had the color of Algiers and the gaiety of Mardi Gras.† (source)
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Being returned home at last, Captain Pollard once more sailed for the Pacific in command of another ship, but the gods shipwrecked him again upon unknown rocks and breakers; for the second time his ship was utterly lost, and forthwith forswearing the sea, he has never tempted it since.† (source)
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There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men. All perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. (source)forsworn = liars
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Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue Which she hath prais'd him with above compare So many thousand times? (source)forsworn = made a liar (by breaking vows)
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