Verb (used with object) : to forswear an injurious habit. From Dictionary.com.
I shall be forsworn, which is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Labour's Lost] Reference
Is the Walker article really about hypothetical regulations that Obama hasn't "forsworn"?. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
False wretch and forsworn, whither wilt thou fare?. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference
And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn. From Wordnik.com. [The Sonnets] Reference
Now for a man who has, I may say, forsworn matrimony. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
Duty of years forsworn, honour in injury lost?. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
Neither I nor those who sent me are used to be forsworn. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
I will stand by my first oath, and will not be forsworn. From Wordnik.com. [Counting Up, Counting Down]
You've forsworn all things Dubya, or arguably pro-Dubya. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel: Pity W, Pity Us More] Reference
For all that he had forsworn jealousy, even Joscelin was human. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
False and forsworn yourself, you dared to suspect and insult me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Of necessity, the gentlemen are forsworn even before they begin. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
"Why, certainly, brother, you shall not be forsworn for my sake.". From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
I will not "— he choked, and paused —" be forsworn by my son. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
If you swore there would not, you would be forsworn within a week. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
If I fail of this, I said, may I live forsworn and die unforgiven!. From Wordnik.com. [The Confession of Brother Haluin]
He had forsworn the club, but would certainly go when thus invited. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
All the tools of his forsworn secret trade, and her blessing on top. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
A people among whom unmarried women who have forsworn meat are called. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
YouTube has long forsworn such ads because consumers don't like them. From Wordnik.com. [Google Push to Sell Ads] Reference
(Had I a clue, I would have forsworn the meager payout and framed it.). From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The Gelding That Could] Reference
I will die ere she shall grieve; and he vowed that never was man so forsworn as he. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
The Pentagon, for example, has already forsworn the use of "enhanced" interrogations. From Wordnik.com. [In The Line Of Fire] Reference
Because, for reasons of my own, I had forsworn matrimony, as I then thought, for all time. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
And if I am forsworn, may my life, my children, my parents and my property be taken from me. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
"The words they speak -- they who are his enemies -- that he had forsworn his faith: it is not true.". From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
I went; and resumed, with a pleasure I can not describe, the garments I had for a whole year forsworn. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And we are forsworn in those meetings with the vice president or with others that we cannot discuss it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2005] Reference
"Fine clo '" I have forsworn, and I would not exchange my jolly school-days for all your festive parties. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
I gape at my father-in-law, who once told me that he'd forsworn all coarse language after his wife's death. From Wordnik.com. [Obituary] Reference
Their jail diet was watery soup, bread and weak tea meager at best, and often forsworn by prisoners on hunger strikes. From Wordnik.com. [Back To The Gulag] Reference
And all they are forsworn, and all they shall be destroyed; they shall be all put to death, with the Lord's assistance!. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
Slowly and relentlessly it came home to her that this was one of the abominable idolaters, and she had forsworn such for ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 06: Josue The Challoner Revision] Reference
"So you had -- if occupying the thoughts of a 'confirmed misogynist' who had forsworn women and all their ways counts as one of them!". From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
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