"cross one's heart" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: crosses one's heart [present, singular, third-person], crossing one's heart [participle, present], crossed one's heart [participle, past], crossed one's heart [past]
Etymology: From cross (“to make the sign of the cross”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|cross||to make the sign of the cross}} cross (“to make the sign of the cross”) Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cross one's heart (third-person singular simple present crosses one's heart, present participle crossing one's heart, simple past and past participle crossed one's heart)
  1. (intransitive) To attest to the truthfulness of the accompanying statement. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-cross_one's_heart-en-verb-TnMNYJA2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 36 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 54 46 Disambiguation of English predicates: 55 45 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 50 50
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cross, one's, heart. Derived forms: cross my heart and hope to die
    Sense id: en-cross_one's_heart-en-verb-xxvWpDEC Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 54 46 Disambiguation of English predicates: 55 45 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 50 50

Inflected forms

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