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Forswear vs Forwear - What's the difference?

forswear | forwear |

As verbs the difference between forswear and forwear

is that forswear is to renounce or deny something, especially under oath while forwear is (obsolete) to wear out; wear away; exhaust; spend; waste.

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.
  • forwear

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (erroneous)

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To wear out; wear away; exhaust; spend; waste.