overswearとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

over- +‎ swear

動詞

overswear (三人称単数 現在形 overswears, 現在分詞 overswearing, 過去形 overswore, 過去分詞 oversworn)

1. (intransitive) To swear excessively; to make too many oaths.
   • 2013, Stefania Tutino, Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture (page 153)

     […] early modern Catholic theologians needed to curb the tendency of overswearing in order to institutionalize and regulate the oath more firmly as a sacrament of power.

2. (obsolete) To swear over again, or in opposition to the oath sworn by another.