sware

Alternative form of swear.

Noun

  1. Alternative form of swear.

Forms

swares

Verb

  1. simple past of swear
    • He shoke downe all the clothys, And sware horryble othes Before the face of God, […] - c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983,...
    • so I sware to the rose,/"Forever and ever, mine." - 1855, Alfred Tennyson, Song from Maud: