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Forego vs Forswear - What's the difference?

forego | forswear |

As verbs the difference between forego and forswear

is that forego is to precede, to go before while forswear is to renounce or deny something, especially under oath.

forego

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Verb

  • To precede, to go before.
  • * Wordsworth
    • pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone
    Usage notes
    * The sense to precede'' is usually found in the form of the participles ''foregone'' (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and ''foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").

    Etymology 2

    See forgo

    Verb

  • ; to abandon, to relinquish
  • * 1762 Waller, T. The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon'', in ''The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762 , Vol. I (February), page 34:
    • […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.
    Usage notes
    * Many writers prefer the spelling forgo on the grounds that it avoids ambiguity.

    References

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    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs

    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.