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overswore

overswore is the simple past of overswear.

Meaning of overswear

Verb

overswear (third-person singular simple present overswears, present participle overswearing, simple past overswore, past participle oversworn)

  1. (intransitive) To swear excessively; to make too many oaths.
    • […] early modern Catholic theologians needed to curb the tendency of overswearing in order to institutionalize and regulate the oath more firmly as a sacrament of power.2013, Stefania Tutino, Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture, page 153
  2. (obsolete) To swear over again, or in opposition to the oath sworn by another.

Questions about overswore

What is overswore the simple past of?
Overswore is the simple past of overswear.

Words near overswore in the dictionary

  1. overswirl
  2. overswirled
  3. overswirling
  4. overswirls
  5. overswollen
  6. overswore
  7. oversworn
  8. overswum
  9. overswung
  10. oversymmetrical
  11. oversympathetic

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