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Meaning of counterswear | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To swear against; to take one's oath against.

transitive

Examples

“If the defendant denied entirely or only partially, his own oath was conclusive on the point, unless the plaintiff counterswore.”
“One of the Irish triads stated that the oath of a woman in childbirth was one of the three oaths that could not be countersworn.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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