Forswear vs Reject - What's the difference?
forswear | reject |
To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To commit perjury.
To refuse to accept.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
In lang=en terms the difference between forswear and reject
is that forswear is to commit perjury while reject is to refuse to accept.As verbs the difference between forswear and reject
is that forswear is to renounce or deny something, especially under oath while reject is to refuse to accept.As a noun reject is
something that is rejected.forswear
English
Alternative forms
* foreswearVerb
- I do forswear her.
- Like innocence, and as serenely bold / As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold!
