Foreswear vs. Forswear

Foreswearverb

do without or cease to hold or adhere to;

‘We are dispensing with formalities’; ‘relinquish the old ideas’;

Forswearverb

(transitive) To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.

‘We forswear allegiance and support for the Economic Freedom Fighters.’;

Foreswearverb

turn away from; give up;

‘I am foreswearing women forever’;

Forswearverb

(intransitive) To commit perjury; to break an oath.

Forswearverb

To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.

‘I . . . do forswear her.’;

Forswearverb

To deny upon oath.

‘Like innocence, and as serenely boldAs truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold!’;

Forswearverb

To swear falsely; to commit perjury.

Forswearverb

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure;

‘He retracted his earlier statements about his religion’; ‘She abjured her beliefs’;