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Promise solemnly
Answer for the clue "Promise solemnly ", 8 letters:
swearing
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Word definitions for swearing in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"utterance of profane language," mid-14c., verbal noun from swear (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted" [syn: curse , curse word , expletive , oath , swearword , cuss ] a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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, ...
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.