manswears
manswears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of manswear.
Meaning of manswear
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...
- Synonyms:
- misswear
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- What is manswears the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Manswears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of manswear.
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