Verb (used with object) : to forswear an injurious habit. From Dictionary.com.
Callippus did as they required, and forswore the fact. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Aalto the architect forswore the glass-and-steel "" international style. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Finland: Designer Nation] Reference
Once when their quarrelling irritated him he forswore them all for a month. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Top surrogates hastily forswore any effort to persuade Clinton to leave the race. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Let people bend knee as had been promised when she first forswore old oaths for new. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
We read in The Accident and other early books how he forswore love as a survivor of the Holocaust. From Wordnik.com. [Heroines of Peace] Reference
Patch actually called up to-day! and when he forswore me about a month ago he fairly raged out the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Cosimo forswore the earth as an act of rebellion against his family, and even when he dies, he does not return. From Wordnik.com. [Effrontery & Charm] Reference
However, they may force us back into a path we forswore long ago'that we would meet open force with open force. From Wordnik.com. [Flight in Yiktor]
When we chose to remain in the trees while humans and apes went down to the ground, we forswore the use of fire. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
Lesser exits dotted the Palace like mouseholes, and Matteo forswore the Gate of Paper -- why was it called that?. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
But Bryan did not yield; he forswore nothing, hid nothing, and he fought a lonely fight, the bravest of his life. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Ah, sir, 'he added feelingly to Paul,' when I forswore the varnish, I little thought it would rise to this quality. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
But if they forswore all claims to privilege, what arguments were left for the prosecution to urge against the subpoena?. From Wordnik.com. [Executive Privilege: Jefferson & Burr & Nixon & Ehrlichman] Reference
Eleven months earlier than this, a meeting at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, forswore allegiance to the British crown. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Now suppose that we lived in an economy that forswore fossil fuels and extracted all of its energy from much more expensive sources. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane Gustav in a Carbon-Free Economy] Reference
Erik Magnusson, space captain and trader of Kraken, forswore in his heart all allegiance to the Empire that had broken faith with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
He forswore the society and the influence of woman. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges] Reference
Here you forswore yourself; here you pay for perjury. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
I never prospered since I forswore myself at primero. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference
But the Hun, he forswore what he vowed at her shrine. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916] Reference
As we in friendship kissed her,/vengeance she forswore. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original] Reference
"I never prospered since I forswore myself at primero.". From Wordnik.com. [William Shakespeare] Reference
A moment or two she did not answer, and then forswore herself, and said, Yes. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
Charity was wrung with a nausea of love in all its activities; she forswore them. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
"But you forswore shootin 'him," chided Bill Saxby, between strokes of the paddle. From Wordnik.com. [Blackbeard: Buccaneer] Reference
Men and women alike, forswore the desired stiffness, retaining it only in their opinions. From Wordnik.com. [Anne Bradstreet and Her Time] Reference
Point, forswore his trust and wrote treason across the fair record of a patriot's achievements. From Wordnik.com. [Beginnings of the American People] Reference
How the shades of old Choate and Webster and Patrick Henry must have wailed when I forswore it. From Wordnik.com. [The Spoilers] Reference
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