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Meaning:
Noun:
- a curse
- A light or insulting use of a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract the name of a deity in a profanity, as in ''swearing '''oaths'''''
- A solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract
- legal An affirmation of the truth of a statement.
- the affirmed statement or promise accepted as equivalent to an '''oath'''
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Verb:
- (archaic) To pledge.
- Shouting out. (as in 'oathing obsenities')
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