All 15 Uses
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Eldest, by Christopher Paolini
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- Son of one of the Forsworn-the thirteen Riders who had helped Galbatorix destroy their order and anoint himself king of Alagaesia-and Eragon's friend.†
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- No, after the Riders fell, we were forced to abandon all our cities aboveground and retreat into our tunnels in order to escape Galbatorix and the Forsworn.†
- Galbatorix and his ever-cursed Forsworn slaughtered them in your city of Uru'baen.†
- After Galbatorix became king, Brom was the only Rider still alive, outside of the Forsworn.†
- It was before Hrothgar adopted me, so I saw little of Brom in Tronjheim......He was always off fighting the Forsworn or engaged in one plot or another.†
- You're right......And that means he was killed by either Galbatorix or the Forsworn.†
- The Forsworn broke something within me when I was their captive, and while I can still teach and learn, I can no longer control magic, except for the smallest of spells.†
- After Galbatorix killed Vrael, he flew on Ilirea with the Forsworn and deposed King Angrenost, taking his throne and titles for his own.†
- And when Galbatorix at last revealed himself and the Forsworn killed Brom's dragon, Brom focused all of his anger and pain on the one who he felt was responsible for the destruction of his world: Morzan.†
- Brom personally killed three of the Forsworn, including Morzan, and he was responsible for the deaths of five others.†
- I never heard his name mentioned in connection to the Forsworn's deaths," objected Eragon.†
- Another name for the Forsworn.†
- -had once been a Rider and had supposedly helped establish the Varden, how Jeod had discovered a secret passageway into Uru'baen, how the Varden arranged to filch the last three dragon eggs from Galbatorix, and how only one egg was saved after Brom fought and killed Morzan of the Forsworn.†
- The plains-which contained huge deposits of peat-lay along the eastern side of the Jiet River where Surda's border crossed it and had been the site of a skirmish between the Riders and the Forsworn.†
- Still, it never occurred to him, even in his most extravagant daydreams, that he might be the son of a Rider, much less one of the Forsworn.†
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.