"manswear" meaning in English

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      "form": "manswears",
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        "third-person"
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      "form": "manswearing",
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      "form": "manswore",
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          "text": "I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.",
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          "ref": "1916, The Prose Edda (translation), page 82",
          "text": "There are doomed to wade the weltering streams / Men that are mansworn, and they that murderers are."
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        "To swear falsely; perjure oneself."
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        "(transitive, chiefly British, dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself."
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          "word": "misswear"
        },
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            "Northern-England"
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          "word": "mainswear"
        },
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          "word": "manswere"
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        {
          "word": "maneswere"
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            "Scotland"
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          "word": "mansweir"
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        "singular",
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        "present"
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      "form": "manswore",
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      "form": "mansworn",
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