NOUN
- the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
How To Use forswearing In A Sentence
- After all, I was merely forswearing a bad habit, forgoing a bad frame of mind. Chapter 30
- Leading by example, the United States announced a review of its nuclear posture - forswearing the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, so long as they are in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Jim Luce: Ground-Breaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review
- Yet it is worth noting that, by forswearing future acquisitions of recently looted work, as the Getty did under Ms. True's leadership, the museum actually did what no other major acquiring museum would do for many years. The Beautiful and the True
- By forswearing himself and violating his oath, he has undermined respect for the integrity of oaths.
- To him even did I tell my family name, and the shame I had saved it from by forswearing it. CHAPTER XIII
- Instead, Treasury is trying to negotiate bailouts bank by bank, and behaving as if the banks hold all the cards — contorting the terms of each deal to minimize government ownership while forswearing government influence over bank strategy or operations. The Quiet Coup
- Zinoviev, on the contrary, demanded an immediate signing of the peace, forswearing the propagandist possibilities of Brest Litovsk. My Life
- Crunchy Frog says: libarbarian: I suppose this attitude explains why Conservatives react to the adoption of their ideas by liberals not by saying “thanks for coming around” but rather by abandoning and forswearing their own previous ideas. The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
- Thus the Brotherhood has gone out of its way in recent weeks to appear in the most benign light, making an ally of former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei and forswearing any immediate political ambitions. Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood
- Zinoviev, on the contrary, demanded an immediate signing of the peace, forswearing the propagandist possibilities of Brest Litovsk. My Life