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Synonyms for swearing

Grammar : Noun
Spell : swair
Phonetic Transcription : swɛər

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Définition of swearing

Origin :
  • Old English swerian "take an oath" (class VI strong verb; past tense swor, past participle sworen), from Proto-Germanic *swarjan-, (cf. Old Saxon swerian, Old Norse sverja, Danish sverge, Old Frisian swera, Middle Dutch swaren, Old High German swerien, German schwören, Gothic swaren "to swear"), from PIE root *swer- (1) "to speak, talk, say" (cf. Old Church Slavonic svara "quarrel"). Also related to the second element in answer. The secondary sense of "use bad language" (early 15c.) developed from the notion of "invoke sacred names." Swear-word is American English colloquial from 1883. Swear off "desist as with a vow" is from 1898.
  • noun foul language
Example sentences :
  • What harm can that swearing coachman do, I should like to know, in the street yonder?
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Hear them swearing at this moment, boys of five, paddling in the water there!
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • But he insisted on swearing, standing with one hand upraised, his eyes on her.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Besides, a man must have an audience when he is an expert in swearing.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • Those that lost on Lucretia are swearing the mare was pulled.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • You can never perjure yourself by swearing to a false opinion.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • I was praying most fervently in my last sheet, and I must not so soon fall a swearing in this.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • Won't there be some swearing in the Argus when that appears!
  • Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
  • Young Badman 'was greatly given also to swearing and cursing.'
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • She could hear him trying to strike some matches, and swearing.
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
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