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present participle and gerund of swear quotations examples
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37
countable and uncountable, plural swearings
The act of swearing, or making an oath. quotations examples
No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.
1693, Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects, London: […] R. R. for Tho[mas] Cockerill, […], published 1697