All 4 Uses of
forswear
in
Measure for Measure
- But, indeed, I can do you little harm: you'll forswear this again.†
Scene 3.2 *
- Yes, marry, did I; but I was fain to forswear it: they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.†
Scene 4.3
- SONG Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again Bring again; Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, Sealed in vain.†
Scene 4.1
- Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak: That Angelo's forsworn, is it not strange?†
Scene 5.1
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.