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Swearing vs Affirming - What's the difference?

swearing | affirming |

As verbs the difference between swearing and affirming

is that swearing is while affirming is .

As a noun swearing

is the act of swearing, or making an oath.

swearing

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  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}

    Noun

  • The act of swearing, or making an oath.
  • * (Daniel Defoe)
    • No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.

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    affirming

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