Meaning of manswear | Babel Free

Definitions

To swear falsely; perjure oneself.

British, dialectal, transitive

Examples

“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.”

“There are doomed to wade the weltering streams / Men that are mansworn, and they that murderers are.”

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