For New Year's, I decided to forswear shopping. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used with object) : to forswear an injurious habit. From Dictionary.com.
The word forswear has appeared in 15 Times articles over the past year, including in a March 14, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
By those laws, men were forbid to perjure themselves, or to forswear, that is, swear falsely. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
Thus they relate to the word "forswear," in the first. From Wordnik.com. [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference
In exchange, he would forswear a hostile takeover. From Wordnik.com. [When Will He Get His Seat?] Reference
Still, through these wintry treasons that forswear. From Wordnik.com. [The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence] Reference
Give his word to Angria and then forswear himself!. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
We would not forswear our inheritance in that way. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENT IN THE PLENARY MEETING OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY] Reference
They would die rather than forswear their allegiance. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
He had pledged himself to forswear offence against this place. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
"Now forswear this not too roundly," spake the mother in reply. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Anna was damned if she was going to forswear all her addictions. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
I believe that both candidates should forego, forswear, soft money. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: U.S. Politicians Intervening to Keep Elian Gonzalez in U.S.; Israeli and Syrian Negotiators Resume Peace Talks; Gore and Bradley Debate in Iowa - January 9, 2000] Reference
Wilt thou forswear the order of the bell, and break thy vows to Momus?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Hence, with Kahei and Sakurai Uji, it was decided to forswear wine forever. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
As for Falstaff, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms '. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Let me entreat thee, good man; let me beg of thee -- forswear this enterprise! '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The scholar must forswear his pen, the lawyer his books, the politician his arts. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Well, I will dare forswear that at all the tables the same subject was discussed. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
No matter; though you should forswear yourself; I, at least, will do what is right. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference
I am a Goshenite, and mean to walk in the light, and forswear the works of darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Kim Jong-il would join her in the kitchen to cook kimchi, and forswear nuclear menace. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2005] Reference
He became determined to remove his paint and canvases to a closet and to forswear art altogether. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
He must forswear old habits and environment -- he must give up all else and fling himself upon her mercy. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
"Lest you later forswear yourselves, there is one more thing that will assure your compliance," said David. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Some again are so stubborn, that they will rather forswear themselves, than confess their sins and wickedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.] Reference
I will forswear ambrosia altogether, and to the end of my days feed on millet with the peasants in the Vale of Tempe. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
But if it would forswear its nuclear program altogether, we would be in a completely different place with North Korea. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Peas For North Korea] Reference
I thought I heard both Senator Obama and Senator McCain in their debate forswear exactly what they voted for last night. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2008] Reference
For either they are mad when they are merry: or they prophesy lies, or they live unjustly, or easily forswear themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom The Challoner Revision] Reference
'' You must indeed have passionately loved that woman, or you, Arthur, could never have been led to forswear your word of honor. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference
Among them are people such as Rotch, whose Birmingham pledge movement invites individuals everywhere to forswear racial discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [The Lessons Of Birmingham] Reference
They tell him of its wonderful qualities, which would render the owner all-powerful, if he should form it into a ring and forswear love. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Now for the third and most fatal time they have demanded that we forswear ourselves and break our own bond lest a worse thing befall us. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
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