forswearing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
verb formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

From Middle English forswerynge; equivalent to for- + swearing.

Mail. But thus forswearing is not perjurie. — Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, George Chapman
All my life-service is unweighed against that faithless hour of my forswearing. — Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, Voltairine De Cleyre
He was also destined for the ministry, but, "coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyrany had invaded the Church,...I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence, before the sacred office of speaking, bought and begun with servitude and forswearing." — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

renunciation, forgoing

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