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FORSWEARING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)

Synonyms:

forgoing; forswearing; renunciation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("forswearing" is a kind of...):

rejection (the act of rejecting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forswearing"):

forsaking; giving up (the act of forsaking)

abnegation; denial; self-abnegation; self-denial; self-renunciation (renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others)

Derivation:

forswear (formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb forswear

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