beswearing
beswearing is the present participle and gerund of beswear.
Meaning of beswear
Verb
beswear (third-person singular simple present beswears, present participle beswearing, simple past beswore, past participle besworn)
- To swear by; swear about or regarding; swear at or to; promise
- Some masters of the art take a pure child and set him in their lap, then lift his hand up and let him look into his nail, and beswear the child and the nail with a great adjuration, and then speak in the child's ear three unknown words, whereof one is Oriel, the others I withhold for fear of...1888, Teutonic mythology, Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass, tr. by J.S. Stallybrass - Volume 4
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- Beswearing is the present participle and gerund of beswear.
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