swore

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swore

  1. simple past of swear
  2. (dialectal or colloquial) past participle of swear
    • 1663, [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. [], London: [] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, [], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, canto II, page 133:
      If that were all, for some have swore / As false as they, if th' did no more []
    • 1990 [1875], R. H. Super, quoting Anthony Trollope, The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope, page 337:
      " [] I have 'swore off' smoking. But you shall have your pipe (the old tobacco) or cigars among the books. It will be quite a delight."
    • 2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, →ISBN, page 109:
      “Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”

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swore

  1. Alternative form of sware
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