forswear
/fə(ɹ)ˈswɛə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We forswear allegiance and support for the Economic Freedom Fighters."
- "Never to woo her more; but do forswear her."
- "Like Innocence, and as serenely bold / As Truth, how loudly He forswears thy Gold!."
- "Long since he had given up every intention of returning to civilization, and now he had decided to see no more his black friends of the Waziri. He had forsworn humanity forever. He had started life an ape—as an ape he would die."
- "Either forswear fucking others or the affair is over."
- "The sheer unimaginableness of coming into her mouth — of coming into anything other than the air or a tissue or a dirty sock — was an allurement too stupendous for a novice to forswear."
Etymology
From Middle English forsweren, from Old English forswerian (“to swear falsely”). Cognate with Old Saxon farswerian, Old High German farsweren, German verschwören. More at for- + swear.