Both Uses
forswear
in
Medea, by Euripides
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- Did ye hear her cry To them that guard man's faith forsworn, Themis and Zeus?†
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- Since not my passioning, But thine own heart, doth cry thee for a thing 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.