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overswear

verb

Etymology

From over- + 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 overswear — “over + swear”

Definitions

  1. To swear excessively

    To swear excessively; to make too many oaths.

    • […] early modern Catholic theologians needed to curb the tendency of overswearing in order to institutionalize and regulate the oath more firmly as a sacrament of power.

  2. To swear over again, or in opposition to the oath sworn by another.

The neighborhood

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