All 9 Uses of
forswear
in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not welcome.†
Scene 2.5
- To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn
Scene 2.6 *forsworn = renounced
- To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn; To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn; To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn; And even that power which gave me first my oath Provokes me to this threefold perjury: Love bade me swear, and Love bids me forswear.†
Scene 2.6
- To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn; To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn; To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn; And even that power which gave me first my oath Provokes me to this threefold perjury: Love bade me swear, and Love bids me forswear.†
Scene 2.6
- To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn; To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn; To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn; And even that power which gave me first my oath Provokes me to this threefold perjury: Love bade me swear, and Love bids me forswear.†
Scene 2.6
- Hath she forsworn me?†
Scene 3.1
- No Valentine, if Silvia have forsworn me.†
Scene 3.1
- Since his exile she hath despis'd me most, Forsworn my company and rail'd at me, That I am desperate of obtaining her.†
Scene 3.2
- When I protest true loyalty to her, She twits me with my falsehood to my friend; When to her beauty I commend my vows, She bids me think how I have been forsworn In breaking faith with Julia whom I lov'd; And notwithstanding all her sudden quips, The least whereof would quell a lover's hope, Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love The more it grows and fawneth on her still.†
Scene 4.2
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.