oath
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3.6
- noun
- /oʊθ/
- Formal
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juramento
- Under oath, your client admitted to committing the crime.
- take an oath
- swear an oath
- an oath of allegiance
Should you ever violate this oath, your blood will be shed.
- Should you ever violate this oath, your blood will be shed.
- If you don't do that, you are not honoring your oath and you are doing harm.
- There's all sorts of other oaths and pledges and things out there.
- They're they're just normal people that have a job and an oath to protect.
- He wants to do away with that part and have them take an oath to him personally.
- When you take an oath, you can't think one thing and say another.
- When Hank made her his heir, she had to swear an oath to him.
- And we, like you said, all, all politicians take an oath.
- And when they commit perjury, they have sworn an oath to the gods.
- But I pledged my oath to my wife.
- And yet I swear this oath America will be.
- For Collins, the oath was pure pragmatism.
- This right now, this book and what we're doing, the oath is fulfilled.
- And after that night, if you accept the oath, you're a made guy.
Examples
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When you take an oath, you can't think one thing and say another.
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I took an oath.
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Part of our oath is to trust each other.
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You believe in the oath you took.
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Even today, when taking an oath, we often end with the formula "so help me God."
Academic text (1999) -
As I understand it, when a judge takes his oath or her oath, they do so to preserve the Union.
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"Once we give someone our oath, we're obliged to keep our word."
Fiction book (1993) -
We took an oath, you and I, to defend the Confederacy.
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Detective William James Taggart swore an oath to protect and serve the people of New York.
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When a witness is called to testify, they must take an oath to tell the truth.
Synonyms
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1.0
A statement by someone saying they will or will not do something
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3.4
A serious promise to do or not do something, often for religious reasons
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4.1
To promise seriously or give something as a guarantee
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3.4
A firm promise to do or not do something
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6.1
A formal promise to tell the truth instead of taking an oath
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8.1
To make a formal written promise with another person or group
Compounds
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Oath comes from an old German word āþ/aiþ, meaning 'promise' or 'pledge', and is like modern German Eid. So an oath is a solemn promise you make in a serious or official situation.