Wiktionary
vb. (alternative spelling of forswear English)
WordNet
v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas" [syn: waive, relinquish, forgo, dispense with]
turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" [syn: renounce, quit, relinquish]
Usage examples of "foreswear".
Do you foreswear your oath, I will break you, crush everything you hold dear and obliterate the house of Saint Pierre from the face of this earth.
When you speak against Edward you foreswear the very vow you made to him last night.
People are repelled by what you do in the name of radicalism, which puts a chip on their shoulders about all revolutionary groups including the Wobblies, who foreswear force and violence and want to make their changes through legal means.
She would be the center of his life, the sunshine he must now foreswear, the light he warmed himself by, now and forever, world without end, amen and amen.
Did he think she would foreswear her oath and grant him her favors for the sake of a passing compliment?
Will you foreswear the drinking of human blood and dedicate the rest of your unholy existence to the service of Christ?
Now they could see more clearly that all the shutters were closed, and even the birds seemed to foreswear that deserted garden.
You had best go, for I could not foreswear what his temper will show so soon after insult.
For now I shall wear sensible shoes that cushion my arches, pay all my taxes, and foreswear swearing in faculty meetings.
How can I serve him without foreswearing my-oath and still plan to kill him?
He changed, behind a chunk of fallen cliff, into the swimming trunks he had brought, stayed in the smooth sea for twenty minutes or so, dried himself and dressed and, foreswearing tea for once, caught the bus into Lymington.
They had not been paid in years and were, in effect, military slaves, who cursed the day that ever their greed had brought them into the clutches of the foresworn and dissolute House of Treeah-Pohtohmas.
Val the Wise was the son of Val the Foresworn, who had conquered the Westlands seven hundred years ago.
His Lady was a foresworn Witch who, in her day, had been outcast because of her choice of him, and who, by some quirk of strangeness, had NOT lost her Power when she married him.
It is you that have foresworn yourself in coming into my bath-room, and in sending such a brutal message to my mother.