What is "swears"

Usage examples of "swears".

Covenant of Grace, which is the Gospel, He swears, and repents not of it.

God swears for the salvation of men, and of kingdoms: and if kingdoms swear, what subject of an oath becometh them better than the preservation and salvation of kingdoms, by establishing the kingdom of a Saviour amongst them, even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Who is a Mediator and Saviour for nations as well as particular persons?

It is, he that so swears, swears upon an implicit faith: for one reason against the articles of the prelates was, that they forced us to swear to the homilies that shall be set out.

He swears against the cold, the pose, the angles of the chair, for perhaps a minute.

All the same, Razetta swears he recognized you, and the same declaration is made by the Forlan who says that you struck his hand to make him drop his lantern.

Then he swears like a trooper, and we all laugh, but he never takes offence.

The bailiff sent by the Council swears that you were in the gondola with the false mother when the young girl joined her.