All 6 Uses of
forswear
in
The Comedy of Errors
- Who heard me to deny it or forswear it?
Scene 5.1 *forswear = renounce
- And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were.†
Scene 4.2
- 'Tis so; and that self chain about his neck Which he forswore most monstrously to have.†
Scene 5.1
- Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too.†
Scene 5.1
- they are both forsworn.†
Scene 5.1
- Besides, I will be sworn these ears of mine Heard you confess you had the chain of him, After you first forswore it on the mart, And thereupon I drew my sword on you; And then you fled into this abbey here, From whence, I think, you are come by miracle.†
Scene 5.1
Definitions:
-
(1)
(forswear as in: forswear my country of birth) to decide to stop doing something; or to renounce or disavow something
-
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely (especially in the UK), forswear can also mean to commit perjury.