Swearing vs Vows - What's the difference?
swearing | vows |
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=
, volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The act of swearing, or making an oath.
* (Daniel Defoe)
As verbs the difference between swearing and vows
is that swearing is while vows is (vow).As nouns the difference between swearing and vows
is that swearing is the act of swearing, or making an oath while vows is .swearing
English
Verb
(head)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.}}
Noun
- No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.
