overswear

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ swear.

Verb

overswear (third-person singular simple present overswears, present participle overswearing, simple past overswore, past participle 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.