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[ US /fɔɹˈswɛɹ/ ]
[ UK /fɔːswˈe‍ə/ ]
VERB
  1. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
    She abjured her beliefs
    He retracted his earlier statements about his religion

How To Use forswear In A Sentence

  • I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
  • Anyone who forswears advertising also forswears any claim to a share of the market.
  • And before any person could take notice thereof, hee became (of a theefe) Ruffian, forswearer, and murtherer, as formerly he had-beene a great Preacher; yet not abandoning the forenamed vices, when secretly he could put any of them in execution. The Decameron
  • After all, I was merely forswearing a bad habit, forgoing a bad frame of mind. Chapter 30
  • ‘It is the Lord's will that I forswear myself,’ he said.
  • Leading by example, the United States announced a review of its nuclear posture - forswearing the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, so long as they are in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Jim Luce: Ground-Breaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review
  • He blows up, and in impassioned language forswears and disowns Rosalia, the five children, and all memory of them and responsibility for them, forever and forever. Lawgivers
  • Yet it is worth noting that, by forswearing future acquisitions of recently looted work, as the Getty did under Ms. True's leadership, the museum actually did what no other major acquiring museum would do for many years. The Beautiful and the True
  • Page 185, Volume 2 learned the lesson of Darwinism will “forswear inquiry after absolute origins and absolute finalities in order to explore specific values and the specific conditions that generate them” (1910, p. 13). EVOLUTIONISM
  • Both sides agreed to forswear all acts of terrorism.
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