| 单词 | to forswear the land |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto forswear the land a. transitive. To abandon or renounce on oath or in a manner deemed irrevocable; = abjure v. to forswear the land, etc.: to swear to abandon it for ever. Also with infinitive as object. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose or intention [verb (transitive)] > abandon, give up, or discontinue forhightc1000 forswearOE forletc1175 sdeign1590 to think (the) better of1752 to get off ——1951 OE Beowulf 804 He sigewæpnum forsworen hæfde. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 387 He made hym, vor hys treson, vorsuerye Engelond. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 97 Þe lond boþe forsuore. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 214 I wald forswer Scotland for euirmair. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 109 By suche contempt the grace offred is refused and as it were forsworne. 1599 W. Shakespeare in W. Shakespeare et al. Passionate Pilgrime (new ed.) sig. A5 A woman I forswore: but I will proue Thou being a Goddesse, I forswore not thee. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 197 They the Land at last did vtterly forsweare. 1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 8 The solemn ingagement, wherin we all forswore kingship. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals ii. i I shall forswear your company. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. xiii. 269 I forswore, with the most solemn oaths, the gaming table. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 369 The whole system of pensions should be for ever forsworn. < as lemmas |
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