ring-oath

noun

An oath sworn upon a finger ring.

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Meanings

nounring-oath (plural ring-oaths)

plural ring-oaths

  1. An oath sworn upon a finger ring.

    "The wall is growing apace," he said. "And we swore an unbreakable oath, a ring-oath and a weapon-oath, that if he finishes building his wall in time, we will give him the sun and the moon[.]"

    2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 59
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