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Meaning of overswear | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To swear excessively; to make too many oaths.
intransitive
To swear over again, or in opposition to the oath sworn by another.
obsolete

Examples

“[…] 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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

overswearing overswears oversweat oversweated oversweating oversweats