forsworn
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /fɔɹˈswɔɹn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Adjective
forsworn (not comparable)
- Having lied under oath; perjured.
- 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, page 66:
- But we hold / Thou art forsworn; and no forsworn Archbishop / Shall helm the Church.
Derived terms
Verb
forsworn
- past participle of forswear