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ring-oaths

ring-oaths is the plural of ring-oath.

Meaning of ring-oath

Noun

ring-oath (plural ring-oaths)

  1. An oath sworn upon a finger ring.
    • "The wall is growing apace," he said. "And we swore an unbreakable oath, a ring-oath and a weapon-oath, that if he finishes building his wall in time, we will give him the sun and the moon[.]"2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 59

Questions about ring-oaths

What is ring-oaths the plural of?
Ring-oaths is the plural of ring-oath.

Words near ring-oaths in the dictionary

  1. ring-necked parakeet
  2. ring-necked parakeets
  3. ring-necked pheasant
  4. ring-necked pheasants
  5. ring-oath
  6. ring-oaths
  7. ring-ousel
  8. ring-piece
  9. ring-pieces
  10. ring-pull
  11. ring-pulls

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