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Swearing   /swˈɛrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Swear  v. t.  (past swore, formerly sware; past part. sworn; pres. part. swearing)  
1.
To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath. "Swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me." "He swore consent to your succession."
2.
(Law) To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; ofetn followed by in or into; as, to swear witnesses; to swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office.
3.
To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend.
4.
To appeal to by an oath. "Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain."
To swear the peace against one, to make oath that one is under the actual fear of death or bodily harm from the person, in which case the person must find sureties that he will keep the peace.


Swear  v. i.  (past swore, formerly sware; past part. sworn; pres. part. swearing)  
1.
To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc. "Ye shall swear by my name falsely." "I swear by all the Roman gods."
2.
(Law) 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. "(I) swore little; diced not above seven times a week."
To swear by, to place great confidence in a person or thing; to trust implicitly as an authority. "I simply meant to ask if you are one of those who swear by Lord Verulam."
To swear off, to make a solemn vow, or a serious resolution, to abstain from something; as, to swear off smoking. (Slang)


adjective
Swearing  adj.  A. & n. from Swear, v. "Idle swearing is a cursedness."





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"Swearing" Quotes from Famous Books



... employed; he has ruin staring him in the face, from his wild living. He must mend. If he intends to keep out of the workhouse, the gaol, the grave, he must mortify the deeds of the body. He must bridle his passions, give up lying about, drinking, swearing, cheating, running after bad women: and if he has a strong will, he does it from mere selfish prudence. But is he safe? I think not, as long as he loves still the bad ways he has given up. He has given them up, not because he hates them, ...
— Town and Country Sermons • Charles Kingsley
... like a fantastic dream to be assured in this way that there were white men, civilized white men, men who could read books and enjoy poetry, sitting about swearing and drinking cocktails under a decent steamer's awnings close by this barbaric scene of savagery. And yet it was no dream. The flies that crept into his nose and his mouth and his eye-sockets, and bit him through his clothing, and the hateful sounds from the ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... from his mouth and squirting, by accident of course, a quantity of spittle over Billy's nicely blacked shoes; "Why you see one of the sophs got his arm broken in a row, and as I am so tender-hearted and couldn't bear to hear him groan, to say nothing of his swearing, the faculty kindly advised me to leave, and sent on before me a recommendation to the old man. But, egad I fixed 'em. I told 'em he was in Boston, whereas he's in Chicopee, so I just took the letter from the office myself. It reads beautifully. Do ...
— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes
... heard the story with outbursts of delight, drank Lecour's health standing on their chairs, heaped his place with roses, sang over and over a chorus in his honour, and parted swearing vehemently that the dismissal of such a good fellow was a wrong to the company of Noailles concocted as an insult to the whole of them by the rival ...
— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall
... disagreeably reminded of the Venturist habit of never accepting anything that was said quite as it stood—of not, even in small things, "swearing to the words" of anybody. He was conscious of the quick passing feeling that his judgment, with regard to Denny, ought to ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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