"forswear" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used as a verb meaning to renounce or declare something to be false, or to reject something under an oath. Example sentence: "The accused forswore his testimony when he was asked to repeat it in court."
And the consequence, too, is eerily similar to Lebanon's: Fatah groups increasingly forswear "peaceful" (stone-throwing) protests in favour of armed guerrilla assaults on Israeli soldiers and settlers.
He urged Congress to forswear threats to shut the federal government down or stop paying America's bills, both cherished Republican negotiating tactics in fiscal disputes.
The group could forswear ad hoc, opaque decrees applied retroactively.
It is true that some of the group's initial promises to forswear all further acts of protectionism, for example—were broken.
The lesson of the shale gas boom, after all, is not that government should forswear any part in shaping the energy mix, but rather that innovation and entrepreneurship can yield dramatic results in a short time if the right incentives are in place.
Faced by such a regime you should never permanently forswear war.
Am I missing something, or is there no Palestinian leader today ready to forswear terrorism and pursue a peaceful two-state settlement based on the principle of mutual compromise?
Although they publicly forswear a link between the referendum and the promissory notes, ministers know that a deal with the ECB would help them win and they know that their fellow Europeans know this too.
Yet seen from India, and from countries that, unlike India and Pakistan, have observed the anti-testing norm and promised to forswear nuclear weapons, a presidential visit will amount in diplomatic terms to the next best thing to general acceptance.And what might India give in return?
But Mr Mandela's symbolic role was hard to exaggerate.His greater achievement was to see the need for reconciliation, to forswear retribution and then to act as midwife to a new, democratic South Africa, built on the rule of law.
Now the firm is making a belated attempt to regain a steady footing.As with many a recovery programme, the first step is to forswear drink.
