What is the difference between oath and abjure?
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A solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract
* 1924 , Aristotle, Metaphysics , Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 3.
The affirmed statement or promise accepted as equivalent to an oath .
A light or insulting use of a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract the name of a deity in a profanity, as in swearing oaths .
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(legal) An affirmation of the truth of a statement.
pledge, vow, avowal
To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
(transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.
To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
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To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
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As verbs the difference between oath and abjure
is that oath is {{context|archaic|lang=en}} to pledge while abjure is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow {{defdate|first attested around 1350 to 1470}}{{reference-book|last =|first =|authorlink =|coauthors =|editor =brown, lesley|others =|title = the shorter oxford english dictionary|origdate =|origyear = 1933|origmonth =|url =|format =|accessdate =|accessyear =|accessmonth =|edition = 5th|date =|year =2003|month =|publisher =oxford university press|location =oxford, uk|language =|id =|doi =|isbn =978-0-19-860575-7|lccn =|ol =|pages =5|chapter =|chapterurl =|quote =}}.As a noun oath
is a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract.oath
English
(wikipedia oath)Noun
(en noun)- for they made Ocean and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the gods as being by water,
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths'. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "' oaths " and "swearing" itself.}}
Synonyms
Derived terms
* oathbound * oathbreaker * oathless * under oathExternal links
* (wikipedia "oath")Anagrams
* (l)abjure
English
Verb
(abjur)- To abjure allegiance to a prince.
- To abjure the realm (to swear to abandon it forever).
- To abjure errors.
- But this rough magic I here abjure [...]