manswear
manswear verb: to swear falsely; perjure oneself.
Verb
manswear (third-person singular simple present manswears, present participle manswearing, simple past manswore, past participle mansworn)
- To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
- I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page...
- There are doomed to wade the weltering streams / Men that are mansworn, and they that murderers are.1916, The Prose Edda (translation), page 82
- Synonyms:
- misswear
Synonyms of manswear
Forms of manswear
| third-person singular present | manswears |
|---|---|
| present participle | manswearing |
| past | manswore |
| past participle | mansworn |
| alternative Northern England | mainswear |
| alternative Scotland | manswere |
| alternative Scotland | maneswere |
| alternative Scotland | mansweir |
Origin of manswear
From Middle English mansweren, from Old English mānswerian (“to forswear, perjure oneself”), from mān (“bad, criminal, false”) + swerian (“to swear”).
Questions about manswear
- What does manswear mean?
- Manswear means to swear falsely; perjure oneself.
- What part of speech is manswear?
- Manswear is a verb.
- What is the past tense of manswear?
- The past tense of manswear is manswore.
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