All 23 Uses
forswear
in
Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini
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- And the thirteen were called the Forsworn.†
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- And Galbatorix and the Forsworn cast down the Riders and burnt their city on the isle of Vroengard and slew every dragon nottheir own, save for three eggs: one red, one blue, one green.†
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- The Forsworn died, but not he, for his strength was that of all the dragons, and none could hope to strike him down.†
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- After the death of the Forsworn, he had become Galbatorix's most feared servant.†
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- And he gave to Eragon Zar'roc, that had once been the sword of Morzan, first and most powerful of the Forsworn.†
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- Was it forged during the fall of the Riders, to use against Galbatorix and the Forsworn?†
Chpt 1
- After the destruction of Doru Araeba, the few of us who had escaped returned to search for anything that might be of use, but the Forsworn had already picked the ruins clean.†
Chpt 40
- The tale of how you and Oromis were captured by the Forsworn, and how you then escaped.†
Chpt 44
- Their intent, we discovered, was to force us to help Galbatorix and the Forsworn enter Ilirea unnoticed, so that they might catch the Riders by surprise and capture the Eldunari who were then living in the city.†
Chpt 44
- And that is how it came to be that we were not in Ilirea when Galbatorix and the Forsworn attacked a few hours later.†
Chpt 44
- Despite our advice to the contrary, they went to join the fight, and it was in that fighting that your namesake died, Saphira......And now you know how the Forsworn captured us and how we escaped.†
Chpt 44
- Eragon saw from Glaedr an image of the crater by the city, and the dragon said, During the battle with the Forsworn, one of our own, an elf by the name of Thuviel, killed himself with magic.†
Chpt 49
- Eragon asked, referring to the one member of the Forsworn who he knew had died on Vroengard.†
Chpt 49
- Galbatorix and the rest of the Forsworn had a moment of warning, and so were able to shield themselves, but many of our own were not as fortunate and thus perished.†
Chpt 49
- For centuries, he lived alone in the icy reaches of the north, but when Galbatorix and the Forsworn began to slaughter our kind, he flew to our aid.†
Chpt 49
- The Riders, the dragons, and the Forsworn loosed an enormous amount of energy during the conflict.†
Chpt 50
- Even ifGalbatorix or the Forsworn had thought to search with their minds in such an unlikely location, the intervening rock would have made it difficult for them to feel much more than a confused flux of energy, which they would have attributed to eddies within the blood of the earth, which lies close beneath us.†
Chpt 56
- One of the Forsworn had slain Thuviel's dragon a month before.†
Chpt 56
- When we woke from our trance, we began to cast our minds out, slowly at first, and then with ever-greater confidence once we realized Galbatorix and the Forsworn had left the island.†
Chpt 56
- Thrice we were able to arrange the death of one of the Forsworn; when not ruled by his passions, Brom was a useful weapon for us.†
Chpt 56
- Remember, they fought against the Forsworn, and unlike many, they lived to tell of it.†
Chpt 60
- When he finished, the inscription had changed to: HERE LIES BROM Who was A Rider bonded to the dragon Saphira Son of Holcomb and Nelda Beloved of Selena Father of Eragon Shadeslayer Founder of the Varden And Bane of the Forsworn.†
Chpt 72
- When we touched ....I always wanted to be a Dragon Rider, Eragon, so that I could protect my people and avenge my father's death at the hands of Galbatorix and the Forsworn, but until I saw the first crack appear in Firnen's egg, I never allowed myself to believe that it might actually come to pass.†
Chpt 74
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.