oath
nounEtymology
From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English āþ (“oath”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”). Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), Saterland Frisian Eed (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ūtor (“make use of, employ, avail”, verb), Old Irish óeth (“oath”).
Definitions
A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not…
A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
- take an oath
- swear an oath
- break one's oath
A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
- After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
- The generals swore an oath of loyalty to the country.
- Wrex: [sigh] Before I left, I made an oath to my father's father. Wrex: I swore to recover my family's battle armor. It was taken from him after the uprising.
A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
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A curse, a curse word.
- The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section[…]
To pledge.
The neighborhood
- synonympledge
- synonymvow
- synonymavowal
- neighboraffirmation
- neighborsolemn affirmation
- neighborbloody oath
- neighborfucking oath
- neighborstatutory declaration
Derived
abjuration oath, bodily oath, book oath, corporal oath, counteroath, Hippocratic oath, ken oath, minced oath, my bloody oath, oathable, oathbound, oathbreach, oathbreaker, oathbreaking, oath-brother, oathful, oath-helper, oath-helping, oathless, oathlet, oathlike, oathmaker, oath of allegiance, oath of calumny, oath of office, oath-ring, oathtaker, oathtaking, oathworthy, on oath, ring-oath, take oath, under oath, weapon oath
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at oath. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at oath. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at oath
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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