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counterswear en · VERB

Etymology

From counter- + swear.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To swear against; to take one's oath against.
   • If the defendant denied entirely or only partially, his own oath was conclusive on the point, unless the plaintiff counterswore. 1926, Thomas Peter Ellis, Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages, volume 2, page 374:
   • One of the Irish triads stated that the oath of a woman in childbirth was one of the three oaths that could not be countersworn. 2011, Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Myth and Religion, page 190:

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