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Verb: foreswear (foreswore,foresworn,foreswearing)  for'swehr
  1. Set aside or refrain from enforcing (a rule, requirement, or formality)
    "The church foreswore its authority over civil matters";
    - waive, relinquish, forgo, forego, dispense with
     
  2. Turn away from; give up
    "I am foreswearing women forever";
    - renounce, quit, relinquish

Derived forms: foreswears, foreswearing, foresworn, foreswore

Type of: abandon, act, give up, move