Definition of Swear

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Definition of Swear

Swear

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.

To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.

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.

To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath.

To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; -- ofetn followed by in or into; as, to swear witnesses; to swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office.

To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend.

To appeal to by an oath.

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Swear Quotations

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
W. C. Fields

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus

Liars are always most disposed to swear.
Vittorio Alfieri

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Robert Browning

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
Herodotus

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.
Rutherford B. Hayes

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.
Jennifer Lopez

Swear Translations

swear in Afrikaans is sweer
swear in Dutch is ketteren, godlasteren, vloeken
swear in Finnish is herjata, vannoa
swear in Portuguese is jure
swear in Spanish is jurar

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