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Definition of Foreswear
1. Verb. Do without or cease to hold or adhere to. "Relinquish the old ideas"
Specialized synonyms: Give Up, Kick
Derivative terms: Waiver
2. Verb. Turn away from; give up. "I am foreswearing women forever"
Specialized synonyms: Disclaim
Generic synonyms: Abandon, Give Up
Derivative terms: Relinquishing, Relinquishment, Renunciant, Renunciation
Definition of Foreswear
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of forswear) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foreswear
1. [v -SWORE, -SWORN, -SWEARING, -SWEARS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreswear
Literary usage of Foreswear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Souvenirs of Léonard: Hairdresser to Queen Marie-Antoinette by Léonard, called Léonard i. e. Léonard Antier (1897)
"In the great needs of the country, there is no such term as woman; and I like to
see your sex foreswear its weakness in the hour of danger. ..."
2. The Last Athenian by Viktor Rydberg (1883)
"He exhorted them to foreswear the devil and the heretical errors inspired by him;
he bade them reflect that their fate would soon be settled for eternity ..."
3. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1891)
"If it don't work foreswear your genius, pull down your sign, and thereafter
prescribe an " eight-dollars-a- dozen" article, chemically pure, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"Antiochus, thinking it a disgrace to be thus baffled, promised the youth honour
and riches if he would foreswear the Jewish faith, and bade the mother ..."
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