Forswear vs Recant - What's the difference?
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To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To commit perjury.
(ambitransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
* Milton
Forswear is a related term of recant.
As verbs the difference between forswear and recant
is that forswear is to renounce or deny something, especially under oath while recant is (ambitransitive) to withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.forswear
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Alternative forms
* foreswearVerb
- I do forswear her.
- Like innocence, and as serenely bold / As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold!
recant
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Verb
(en verb)- Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant .
- How soon ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void!