Manswear
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Manswear is a verb meaning (transitive, chiefly British, dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
Meaning
(transitive, chiefly British, dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
Example Sentences
There are doomed to wade the weltering streams / Men that are mansworn, and they that murderers are.
I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.
Word Forms
- manswears
- manswearing
- manswore
- mansworn
- manswere
- maneswere
- mansweir
Synonyms for manswear
Depending on context, synonyms include misswear.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mainswear, misswear, perjure, miswear, prevaricate, falsify.
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