Word Meanings - SWEARING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
from Swear, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer.
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- SWEARER
1. One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration. 2. A profane person; one who uses profane language. Then the liars and swearers are fools. Shak. - PROFANENESS
The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language. - SWEARING
from Swear, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer. - IMPIETY
1. The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness. 2. An impious act; an act of wickednes. Those impieties for the which they are now visited. Shak. Syn. -- Ungodliness; irreligion; - BLASPHEMY
1. An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity. Note: When used - SWEAR
To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner. 3. To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse. - MAINSWEAR
To swear falsely. Blount. - FORSWEARER
One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath. - MISWEAR
To wear ill. Bacon. - FORSWEAR
1. To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! Dryden. - MANSWEAR
To swear falsely. Same as Mainswear. - OUTSWEAR
To exceed in swearing. - UNSWEAR
To recant or recall, as an oath; to recall after having sworn; to abjure. J. Fletcher. - MISSWEAR
To swear falsely.