Crossword clues for swearing
swearing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swear \Swear\, v. i. [imp. Swore, formerly Sware; p. p. Sworn; p. pr. & vb. n. Swearing.] [OE. swerien, AS. swerian; akin to D. zweren, OS. swerian, OHG. swerien, G. schw["o]ren, Icel. sverja, Sw. sv["a]rja, Dan. sv[ae]rge, Icel. & Sw. svara to answer, Dan. svare, Dan. & Sw. svar an answer, Goth. swaran to swear, and perhaps to E. swarm.
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To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc.
Ye shall swear by my name falsely.
--Lev. xix. 1 -
I swear by all the Roman gods.
--Shak.2. (Law) To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.
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To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.
[I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week.
--Shak.To swear by, to place great confidence in a person or thing; to trust implicitly as an authority. ``I simply meant to ask if you are one of those who swear by Lord Verulam.''
--Miss Edgeworth.To swear off, to make a solemn vow, or a serious resolution, to abstain from something; as, to swear off smoking. [Slang]
Swearing \Swear"ing\, a. & n. from Swear, v.
Idle swearing is a cursedness.
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"utterance of profane language," mid-14c., verbal noun from swear (v.).
Wiktionary
n. The act of swearing, or making an oath. vb. (present participle of swear English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "swearing".
Swearing under his breath, Ace hurried to help the abused woman to her feet.
Swearing under his breath, Ace hurried to help the young wife to her feet.
The gentleman having searched the lad, and found the partridge upon him, denounced great vengeance, swearing he would acquaint Mr.
Big Bob hammered and beat and bashed, swearing huge and terrible oaths, pulling out tufts of synthetic hair and bruising synthetic skin.
Branicki was killed, his Uhlans began to ride about the town swearing to avenge their colonel, and to slaughter you.
Pocchini, swearing and blaspheming, began to reproach me with the manner in which I had treated him in England, and said that his time had come, and that my life was in his hands.
I knelt before her, and taking her hand begged her pardon, swearing not to renew my attempts.
As soon as he felt himself caught, he begged me not to make any noise, swearing he would return all the handkerchiefs he had stolen from me, which, as he confessed, amounted to seven or eight.
Dave were swearing their heads off as they spoke with her and he knew that was what was bothering him.
Swearing, I got back down off the buckboard, and, between the two of us, we piled the dog on the cookware.
MINUTES LATER, the moon hidden behind the clouds and rain starting to lash down, Cai stormed out of the police station swearing a blue streak.
Three men, armed with guns and looking like banditti, came in shortly after I had gone to bed, speaking a kind of slang which I could not make out, swearing, raging, and paying no attention to me.
Bininski came to where Branicki was lying, and seeing his wound rode off furiously on horseback, swearing to strike me dead wherever he found me.
Swearing, he went out againit was snowing fiercely nowto a different store and purchased a cyanoacrylate adhesive, the kind that bonds skin instantly.
So he concentrated instead on the more enjoyable activities which had led up to this prolonged session of discomfort: the procession through the town, the entrance into the castle, the swearing of the nobles, even the formal divestiture of garments which had taken place outside the hall, the clothing heaped into two piles between which the wedding procession had passed.