Verb (used with object) : to forswear an injurious habit.    From Dictionary.com. 

We are forswearing ... chemical weapons ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statement On Nuclear Deterrence] Reference

"But it means forswearing yourself; I have nay right to ask it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

A false oath is called perjury; or, as in this place, forswearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference

Neither side sees a comparative advantage in forswearing all of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Blogger poll: Stupak amendment hurts Dems. Dems need to motivate base; Repubs need outreach to independents] Reference

She said any country in the region that is forswearing a nuclear program.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2008] Reference

To him even did I tell my family name, and the shame I had saved it from by forswearing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XIII] Reference

Some women in Los Angeles are forswearing dieting and embracing a new euphemism for it: cleansing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorraine Duffy Merkl: "Fat Chick" Finally Gets Its "Fat Chance"] Reference

This with much more alarmed surprise than if you had declared your intention of forswearing clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917] Reference

If you need an economic stimulus, you could well give yourself a sizable rebate by forswearing skin care products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lennard Davis: In Tough Economic Times Go Easy on the Skin Care Obsession] Reference

McCain, the scrappy confrontationalist, has turned pacifist, dramatically forswearing the use of negative ads -- forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dixie Donnybrook] Reference

When Jaime joins the Kingsguard, forswearing all claims to inheritance, Tyrion becomes Tywin's heir, much to Tywin's fury.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Official Casting for A Game of Thrones] Reference

They assume that if you like These New Puritans you can't like Tinie Tempah, that loving Madness means forswearing all Gaga.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top of the Pops had the real X factor] Reference

And then, in some of the opening stories in Licks of Love, he seems rigid and austere, as if forswearing any stimulants at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbit Undone] Reference

This is something we should be doing right now, not forswearing it as a threat to "the society and economy of the United States.".    From Wordnik.com.  [John McQuaid: The Interior Department vs. The Polar Bears] Reference

‘Spare yourself the trouble of forswearing yourself and racking your brains to stifle truth with falsehood,’ I coldly replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference

Sir Louis had now been living cleanly and forswearing sack for what was to him a very long period, and his health felt the good effects of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Thorne] Reference

He would continue to live in Iran for 15 years, forswearing political activity and eventually fleeing to Paris with his wife when the opportunity arose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories of Iran] Reference

Is it because he resents the idea that breakers of oaths, like himself, should be disqualified from having another opportunity of forswearing themselves?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference

There was not much forswearing of little luxuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benjamin Franklin] Reference

After all, I was merely forswearing a bad habit, forgoing a bad frame of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

He would never be guilty of such forswearing of his own personality and self-respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchism and Other Essays] Reference

"When I see a burn I e'en must juist paidle in it," retorted Tony, deliberately forswearing herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference

She must give herself up to the Lord absolutely and entirely, forswearing all the world's allurements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch] Reference

Prefecture, forswearing himself, serving the Empire in spite of all the oaths he had taken in his exile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat and the Thin] Reference

And, thinking of this, suspicion assailed him that forswearing had been slightly insincere and perfunctory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

Obama appeared unlikely to go as far as forswearing the first-strike option, which will disappoint some liberals.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Free Press] Reference

"At lovers 'perjuries Jove laughs" -- and poets have sometimes a disingenuous way of forswearing their occupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference

They seek to compel us to sign a paper, forswearing our allegiance to Great Britain and claiming allegiance to them!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders] Reference

The country was terror-stricken; paralyzed, motionless, abject, forswearing its convictions, and imploring only life.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference