Both Uses
forswear
in
The Pardoner's Tale
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- * *forbid gambling* Hazard is very mother of leasings,* *lies And of deceit, and cursed forswearings: Blasphem' of Christ, manslaughter, and waste also Of chattel* and of time; and furthermo' *property It is repreve,* and contrar' of honour, *reproach For to be held a common hazardour.†
- This fruit comes of the *bicched bones two,* *two cursed bones (dice)* Forswearing, ire, falseness, and homicide.†
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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.