to foreswear
1
9.9
- verb
- /fɔrˈswɛr/
- Archaic
:
renunciar
- After much reflection, she decided to foreswear her previous lifestyle and embrace healthier habits.
Who settled down and foreswore his bad ways and is now coming back, right?
- Who settled down and foreswore his bad ways and is now coming back, right?
Examples
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The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having foresworn the world or storm fear.
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Who settled down and foreswore his bad ways and is now coming back, right?
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A real man or woman of God does not foreswear his greatest gift and responsibility in this life:
Blog text (8) -
Even if officers were to foreswear voting, their opinions on defense issues likely would not change.
Academic text (2001) -
Do you willingly foreswear P in V sex with your wife?
Blog text (13) -
Sarkozy supplies you with almost no indication that he or she is in a position to foreswear the EU traction on the positioning with regard to larger worldwide variety.
Blog text (32) -
The paramount lesson learned from these crises was that it was not nearly enough for the military to foreswear illegitimate involvement in politics and to understand both the institutional rationale and broader political reasons for doing so.
Academic text (2001) -
This provides clear evidence for both sides of the seriousness of the issues involved—non-Indians cannot claim that Indians are simply profiteering when they foreswear all economic exploitation of such lands.
Academic text (2005) -
In 1904, just before The Colonel's Dream was published, Chesnutt wrote to Walter Hines Page, "I have almost decided to foreswear the race problem stories, but I should like to write a good one which would be widely read before I quit" (qtd. in Andrews 133).
Academic text (2018) -
He chose to foreswear any beliefs that contradicted his values after years of inner conflict.
Synonyms
∞
1.2
To stop trying to do something or accept defeat
683
3.7
To stop doing something you once did
668
1.0
To stop doing a habit or activity like smoking
401
3.8
Stop supporting an idea or plan
107
6.6
Choose not to use a right or to charge a fee
69
6.3
To give up a right, belief, job, or position officially
69
7.2
To give up control, a right, or something you own
44
8.6
Say publicly that you no longer believe something you said before
41
6.0
To take back a statement or opinion in public
38
6.9
To leave someone who needs your help
37
5.8
Refuse to accept someone or something and stop having any connection with them
33
7.7
To say you are not responsible for or connected to something
30
6.3
Decide not to have or do something you want
24
6.3
To choose not to have or do something
24
6.3
To stop using something because you do not need it
3
9.9
To give up a belief or support publicly under pressure
2
9.6
To promise to give up a belief, habit, or practice
1
9.9
To leave a religion and stop believing its teachings
To stop yourself from having something you want, like a treat
Antonyms
How Complete
- Formal
3
9.9
- Archaic
1
9.9
- Formal
69
6.3
401
3.8
∞
1.2
310
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foreswear comes from the parts for- and swear, where swear means 'promise' or 'oath' and for- adds the sense of 'away' or 'against'. So to foreswear something is to officially 'give up' or reject it, often by a public or serious statement.