Both Uses
forswear
in
Much Ado About Nothing
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- If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn.†
Scene 1.1 *
- 'That I believe' said she, 'for he swore a thing to me on Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning: there's a double tongue; there's two tongues.'†
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.