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swearable

adj

Etymology

From swear + -able.

  1. derived from *swer-✻ — “to swear”
  2. inherited from *swarjaną✻ — “to speak, swear”
  3. inherited from *swarjan✻
  4. inherited from swerian — “to swear, take an oath of office”
  5. inherited from sweren
  6. suffixed as swearable — “swear + able”

Definitions

  1. Able to be sworn in.

    • Under amendment to Family Court Act § 343.1 (2) that took effect shortly before fact-finding hearing, nine-year-old victim was swearable by virtue of his age; in any event, he understood difference between truth and falsity […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for swearable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA