Crossword clues for sworn
sworn
- Promised choice of two or three headings
- Kind of testimony
- Solemnly promised
- Under oath
- Type of enemy
- Taken an oath
- Like trial testimony
- ___ to secrecy
- Stated under oath
- Offered under oath
- Like testimony
- Like some testimonies
- Like many testimonies
- Given testimony
- Given an oath (with "in")
- Bound to tell the truth, say
- ___ enemy
- Like some enemies or testimonies
- Kind of statement
- Like court testimony
- Avowed
- With 118-Across, given up
- Like much testimony
- Like 14-Down
- Like some statements
- Kind of enemy
- Pledge
- ___ in (inducted)
- Bound by oath
- Like some testimony and enemies
- Bound by an oath
- Type of testimony
- Given under oath
- Stated on oath
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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]
Sworn \Sworn\, p. p. of Swear.
Sworn brothers, originally, companions in arms who took an oath to share together good and bad fortune; hence, faithful friends.
Sworn enemies, determined or irreconcilable enemies.
Sworn friends, close friends.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle of swear; sworn enemies, those who have taken a vow of mutual hatred, is from c.1600.
Wiktionary
1 Given under oath. 2 (rfdef: English) v
(past participle of swear English)
WordNet
See swear
v. utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, imprecate]
to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan]
promise solemnly; take an oath
have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes" [syn: trust, rely, bank] [ant: distrust, distrust]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "sworn".
It was a sworn affidavit by Hermann Graebe, the manager and engineer of a branch office in the Ukraine of a German construction firm.
And, worse, she had betrayed most melancholy signs of sourness and agedness as soon as he had sworn himself to her fast and fixed.
My self-esteem was so wounded by this, and by his impoliteness in not answering my letter, with which he could certainly find no fault, whatever his criticism of my translation might be, that I became the sworn enemy of the great Voltaire.
She and Ribela had broken the prohibition during the battle of Arneis, but they had been sworn before the emperor not to do it again.
He, attempting to force the sworn word of a warrior, knew naught of my presence till my left hand had taken him by the hair, forcing his head back exposing his throat to the point of my dagger.
I have sworn to sweep them away, man, woman, and child, and be avenged upon all their unclean and faithless race.
In another two hours they were back on the ship, and Batman had sworn that he was never dating another stewardess for as long as he lived.
An army sworn to a god bereft of its power was, as far as Itkovian was concerned, no different from any other band of mercenaries: a collection of misfits and a scattering of professional soldiers.
When Sahra and Bibi had sworn, and Rinatto as well, Balanji stood and delivered his own oath, a promise of wisdom, protection and reward.
Two newly sworn watchmen remain behind and almost at once Conrade and Borachio enter.
A mere accident, right when he was about to make a breakthrough on the dangerous Soviet work he had sworn never to repeat?
He was a Blackhail hammerman, a sworn warrior of eight seasons, celebrated for saving Arlec Byce on Bannen Field and holding the Ganmiddich roundhouse with a force of just eleven.
They were the children of Saint Camber, and he had sworn to them, and he could not refuse anything they asked.
So cruel a desertion seemed to me unnatural, and I came to the conclusion that the Inquisitors had sworn my death.
Pliny, inspired with as truly Roman horror of quackery as the elder Cato,--who declared that the Greek doctors had sworn to exterminate all barbarians, including the Romans, with their drugs, but is said to have physicked his own wife to death, notwithstanding,--Pliny says, in so many words, that the cerates and cataplasms, plasters, collyria, and antidotes, so abundant in his time, as in more recent days, were mere tricks to make money.