forswear (also intr. and refl. ‘to swear falsely’)
1.
to abandon or renounce on oath
Tp. IV. i. 91
“Her and her blind boy's
scandal'd company I have
forsworn”
; construed with infin. (only S.)
Tw.N. III. iv. 279
“ to wear iron
about you,”
Cor. V. iii. 80
“The things I have
forsworn to grant,”
Rom. I. i. 229
“She hath forsworn to
love.”
2.
to deny or repudiate
on oath or with strong words
Err. V. i. 11
“that self chain . . .
Which he forswore . . . to have,”
Shr. V. i. 113
“deny him, him,”
1H4 V. ii. 38
“forswearing that he is
forsworn.”
