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Another word for forswear

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forswear

v.

abjure, renounce, repudiate, retract; see abandon 1, deny.

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Another word for forswear

also foreswear verb

To give up a possession, claim, or right:
abandon, abdicate, cede, demit, hand over, quitclaim, relinquish, render, renounce, resign, surrender, waive, yield. See keep
To make untrue declarations:
falsify, fib, lie², prevaricate. (Law) perjure. See true

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It must have been at this time that an addition was made by Waynflete to the Eton college statutes, compelling the fellows to forswear the heresies of John Wycliffe and Pecock.
According to Vasari the angel kneeling on the left, with a drapery over the right arm, was put ire by Leonardo, and when Verrocchio saw it his sense of its superiority to his own work caused him to forswear painting for ever after.

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