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plural oaths
A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise. quotations examples
But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word. But you took no oath, and have no obligation.
2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space
There are […] brought all the way from Bougainville to present their birth certificates and testify in this courtroom, under oath, as to their given names.
2011, Mark Leyne, The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel
A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge. quotations examples
Wrex: [sigh] Before I left, I made an oath to my father's father.Wrex: I swore to recover my family's battle armor. It was taken from him after the uprising.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1
A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity. examples
A curse, a curse word. quotations examples
The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section […]
1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows
third-person singular simple present oaths, present participle oathing, simple past and past participle oathed
(archaic) To pledge.