overswear

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verb

To swear excessively; to make too many oaths.

Scrabble 15
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Meanings

verboverswear (third-person singular simple present overswears, present participle overswearing, simple past overswore, past participle oversworn)

present singular third person overswears · participle present overswearing · past overswore · participle past oversworn

  1. intransitiveTo swear excessively; to make too many oaths.

    […] early modern Catholic theologians needed to curb the tendency of overswearing in order to institutionalize and regulate the oath more firmly as a sacrament of power.

    2013, Stefania Tutino, Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture, page 153
  2. obsoleteTo swear over again, or in opposition to the oath sworn by another.

Origin

From over- + swear.

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APA

overswear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overswear

MLA

“overswear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overswear. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overswear,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overswear.

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