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Definition of 'swearing'

English

Verb

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  • *{{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-14|author= Sam Leith
    • |volume=189|issue=1|page=37|magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) |title= Where the profound meets the profane |passage=Swearing' doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of '''swearing''': vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "' swearing " itself.}}

    Noun

  • The act of swearing, or making an oath.
  • * (Daniel Defoe)
    • No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.

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