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Meaning:

Noun:

  • a curse
  • A light or insulting use of a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract the name of a deity in a profanity, as in ''swearing '''oaths'''''
  • A solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract
  • legal An affirmation of the truth of a statement.
  • the affirmed statement or promise accepted as equivalent to an '''oath'''

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Verb:

  • (archaic) To pledge.
  • Shouting out. (as in 'oathing obsenities')

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