What is "foresworn"

Usage examples of "foresworn".

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.

She has foresworn her rebellion and her claims to the Sun Throne, but others still might try to use her.

Gorlen wished -- not for the first time since taking his bardic oath -- that he had not foresworn the carrying of weapons.

I should indeed be foresworn if I stepped before the altar with another man, and promised a love and faith which my heart knows not, and can never know.

He had to abide by his oath, even when Gird thought him foresworn, and hope that things would change.

Regulus of the Isles, Sheriff of Inverness, and always a most pious Servant of Our Lord Jesus Christ, will have no dealings with honorless, foresworn pagan heretics who delight in the butchery of women and children.

And yet here, in the rain forest, the natural architecture of sun, and shade, and growth, seems a vital celebration of life and its glory, not a consequence of aberrations and the madness of abnegations, not an invention of dismal men who have foresworn women, even slaves, and certain vegetables, and live by parasitically feeding and exploiting the superstitions of the lower castes.

You've foresworn King Arthur, we haven't, it's that simple, and nothing you can say is going to change our feelings about the King, the Church, or the lightnesses or wrongnesses of the causes.

Calvert Tyger and his pals had foresworn the Confederacy a good spell before Lee's surrender, and would have been free to head home the same as any other Union vets had they not deserted both armies in time of war.

You've foresworn King Arthur, we haven't, it's that simple, and nothing you can say is going to change our feelings about the King, the Church, or the rightnesses or wrongnesses of the causes.