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Forsweal vs Forswear - What's the difference?

forsweal | forswear |

As verbs the difference between forsweal and forswear

is that forsweal is to burn up while forswear is to renounce or deny something, especially under oath.

forsweal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To burn up.

    • 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.