All 10 Uses
forswear
in
Romeo and Juliet
(Edited)
- She hath forsworn to love,
p. 22.4
- She hath forsworn to love,
p. 25.4
- Did my heart love till now?
Forswear it, sight!
For I never saw true beauty till this night.p. 54.1 * - Did my heart love till now?
Forswear it, sight!
For I never saw true beauty till this night.p. 53.9 * - I'll not be forsworn.
p. 178.5
- I'll not be forsworn.
p. 171.1
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- There's no trust,
No faith, no honesty in men. All perjured,
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.p. 142.1 * - There's no trust,
No faith, no honesty in men. All perjured,
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.p. 135.8 * - 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?p. 180.9 - 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?p. 173.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(forswear as in: forswear my country of birth) to decide to stop doing something; or to renounce or disavow something
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (especially in the UK), forswear can also mean to commit perjury.