Usually means: Renouncing something previously promised or believed.
Definitions Related words Mentions History
We found 16 dictionaries that define the word forswearing:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. forswearing: Merriam-Webster
  2. forswearing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. forswearing: Vocabulary.com
  4. forswearing: Wordnik
  5. forswearing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. forswearing: Wiktionary
  7. Forswearing, forswearing: Dictionary.com
  8. Forswearing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. forswearing: Rhymezone
  10. Forswearing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. forswearing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. forswearing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. forswearing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. forswearing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. forswearing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. forswearing: Legal dictionary

(Note: See forswear as well.)

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky
Definitions from Wiktionary (forswearing)

▸ noun:  The act of one who forswears.

Similar:
renunciation, forgoing, abjuration, renouncement, forfeiting, swearing, abjugation, refraining, forbiddance, abrogation, more...

Opposite:
swearing, affirming, avowing, acknowledging

Types:
abjure, renounce, recant, revoke, rescind, retract, more...

▸ Words similar to forswearing

▸ Usage examples for forswearing

▸ Idioms related to forswearing

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Popular adjectives describing forswearing

▸ Words that often appear near forswearing

▸ Rhymes of forswearing

▸ Invented words related to forswearing

Similar:
renunciation, forgoing, abjuration, renouncement, forfeiting, swearing, abjugation, refraining, forbiddance, abrogation, more...

Opposite:
swearing, affirming, avowing, acknowledging

Types:
abjure, renounce, recant, revoke, rescind, retract, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.


(Click a button above to see words related to "forswearing" that fit the given meter.)



Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux