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(transitive, chiefly British, dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself..
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.
Use manswear when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Manswear means (transitive, chiefly British, dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself..
Common synonyms include misswear.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There are doomed to wade the weltering streams / Men that are mansworn, and they that murderers are.
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