oaths

Noun

oath (plural oaths)

1. A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
   • take an oath
2. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
   • After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
3. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
4. A curse, a curse word.
   • The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section[…]1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows

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