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Eschew vs Forswear - What's the difference?

eschew | forswear |

As verbs the difference between eschew and forswear

is that eschew is (formal) to avoid; to shun, to shy away from while forswear is to renounce or deny something, especially under oath.

eschew

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.

    • Usage notes

    * The verb is not normally applied to the avoidance or shunning of a person or physical object, but rather, only to the avoidance or shunning of an idea, concept, or other intangible.

    Quotations

    {{timeline , 1500s=1599 , 1900s=1927 , 2010s=2014}} * *: What cannot be eschew’d must be embrac’d. * 1927 , *: He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order. * '>citation

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * shy

    References

    forswear

    English

    Alternative forms

    * foreswear

    Verb

  • To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do forswear her.
  • * Dryden
    • Like innocence, and as serenely bold / As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold!
  • To commit perjury.