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TRex

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foreswear?
« on: June 25, 2022, 02:37:00 AM »
In a recent 7-by-many puzzle, 'foreswear' was accepted as a word with all the letters — but even the OED doesn't list this as a word. The closest it lists is forswear.

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Re: foreswear?
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2022, 08:10:09 AM »
There are other dictionaries besides the OED, of course. The Free Dictionary has foreswear as a variant of forswear, listing its sources as American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged. These are online sources, but my hard copy Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary from 1996 also lists foreswear.
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