FORSWEARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forswearing mean? 

• FORSWEARING (noun)
  The noun FORSWEARING has 1 sense:

1. the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)

  Familiarity information: FORSWEARING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORSWEARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

forgoing; forswearing; renunciation

Hypernyms ("forswearing" is a kind of...):

rejection (the act of rejecting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forswearing"):

forsaking; giving up (the act of forsaking)

abnegation; denial; self-abnegation; self-denial; self-renunciation (renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others)

Derivation:

forswear (formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure)

 Context examples 

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations: every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)