counterswear

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verb

To swear against; to take one's oath against.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

verbcounterswear (third-person singular simple present counterswears, present participle counterswearing, simple past counterswore, past participle countersworn)

present singular third person counterswears · participle present counterswearing · past counterswore · participle past countersworn

  1. transitiveTo swear against; to take one's oath against.

    If the defendant denied entirely or only partially, his own oath was conclusive on the point, unless the plaintiff counterswore.

    1926, Thomas Peter Ellis, Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages, volume 2, page 374
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    One of the Irish triads stated that the oath of a woman in childbirth was one of the three oaths that could not be countersworn.

    2011, Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Myth and Religion, page 190

Origin

From counter- + swear.

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APA

counterswear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterswear

MLA

“counterswear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterswear. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counterswear,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterswear.

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