Forgo vs Forswear - What's the difference?
forgo | forswear |
To let pass, to leave alone
To do without, to abandon
To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.
To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To commit perjury.
As verbs the difference between forgo and forswear
is that forgo is to let pass, to leave alone while forswear is to renounce or deny something, especially under oath.forgo
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Alternative forms
* foregoVerb
- The only way to avoid shame is to forgo acting shamefully.
References
* *Anagrams
* English irregular verbsforswear
English
Alternative forms
* foreswearVerb
- I do forswear her.
- Like innocence, and as serenely bold / As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold!