verb
- to retract or take back an oath or sworn statement
Usage: archaic; rare
Examples
- The witness attempted to unswear his previous testimony.
- He could not unswear the oath he had taken before the court.
- She wished she could unswear the promise she had made in haste.
- The knight was forced to unswear his allegiance to the fallen king.
- Once spoken under oath, those words could not be unsworn.