sworn

Meanings

Verb

• Past participle of swear

Adjective

• Given or declared under oath.
• Bound as though by an oath.
• Ardent, devout.

Origin

• From Middle English sworen, isworen, from Old English sworen, ġesworen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaran, *giswaran, from Proto-Germanic *swaranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swarjaną, equivalent to swear + -en.