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counterswear

verb

Etymology

From counter- + swear.

  1. derived from *swer-✻ — “to swear”
  2. inherited from *swarjaną✻ — “to speak, swear”
  3. inherited from *swarjan✻
  4. inherited from swerian — “to swear, take an oath of office”
  5. inherited from sweren
  6. prefixed as counterswear — “counter + swear”

Definitions

  1. To swear against

    To swear against; to take one's oath against.

    • If the defendant denied entirely or only partially, his own oath was conclusive on the point, unless the plaintiff counterswore.
    • One of the Irish triads stated that the oath of a woman in childbirth was one of the three oaths that could not be countersworn.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA