What does overswear mean?
Overswear means (intransitive) To swear excessively; to make too many oaths..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(intransitive) To swear excessively; to make too many oaths..
[…] early modern Catholic theologians needed to curb the tendency of overswearing in order to institutionalize and regulate the oath more firmly as a sacrament of power.
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Overswear means (intransitive) To swear excessively; to make too many oaths..
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[…] early modern Catholic theologians needed to curb the tendency of overswearing in order to institutionalize and regulate the oath more firmly as a sacrament of power.
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