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counterswore

counterswore is the simple past of counterswear.

Meaning of counterswear

Verb

counterswear (third-person singular simple present counterswears, present participle counterswearing, simple past counterswore, past participle countersworn)

  1. (transitive) To swear against; to take one's oath against.
    • If the defendant denied entirely or only partially, his own oath was conclusive on the point, unless the plaintiff counterswore.1926, Thomas Peter Ellis, Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages, volume 2, page 374

Questions about counterswore

What is counterswore the simple past of?
Counterswore is the simple past of counterswear.

Words near counterswore in the dictionary

  1. counterswearing
  2. counterswears
  3. counterswing
  4. counterswinging
  5. counterswings
  6. counterswore
  7. countersworn
  8. counterswung
  9. countersynod
  10. countersynods
  11. countersyntactic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: counterswore (page history and authors); counterswear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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