Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who forswears; one who swears a false oath; a perjurer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
forswears . - noun One who
swears afalse oath ;perjurer .
Etymologies
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From Middle English forswerere, equivalent to forswear + -er.
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Examples
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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 2004
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