OATHS

Definition: OATHS

OATHS

Plural

1. Of Oath

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "OATHS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: OATHS

Insolence

Verb: be insolent; Adjective: bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear; (affirm); rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell.

Untruth

Adjective: untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory, illusory; ironical; soi-disant; (misnamed).

Crosswords: OATHS

Books

• A Matter of Oaths (reference)

• Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth Century England: The Political Significance of Oaths and Engagements (reference)

• Oaths [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Oaths and Miracles (reference)

• Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New England (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Common-wealths themselves take notice of, and allow, that there is a time when men are to begin to act like free men, and therefore till that time require not oaths of fealty, or allegiance, or other public owning of, or submission to the government of their countries. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But, in spite of the oaths and blows which seem necessary with horses, he had retained something of the notary.

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Civil Liberties

Singapore

The Government deregistered and banned Jehovah's Witnesses in 1972 on the grounds that its approximately 2,000 members refuse to perform military service (which is obligatory for all male citizens), salute the flag, or swear oaths of allegiance to the State. (references)

China

There continue to be reports of monks and nuns outside of the TAR who have left monasteries and nunneries to avoid the patriotic education campaigns, which force them to choose between signing oaths with political content or possibly suffering serious consequences. (references)

Belarus

State employees are not required to take religious oaths or practice elements of a particular faith; however, the practice of a faith not viewed as traditional, especially one not permitted to register, could place a believer at a disadvantage in terms of advancement within the government bureaucracy or the state sector of the economy. (references)

Economic History

Ghana

On that day, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings was inaugurated as President and members of Parliament swore their oaths of office. (references)

Human Rights

Syria

Some former prisoners reportedly were required to sign loyalty oaths or admissions of guilt as a condition of their release. (references)

Minorities

Cote d'Ivoire

The practices of traditional indigenous religions often are shrouded by secrecy, and include exclusive initiation rites, oaths of silence, and taboos against writing down orally transmitted history. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "OATHS": commissioner for oaths. Additional references.

Chinese 

誓言 (OATH). (various references)

French

serments d'office (oaths of office), serment d'office et de discrétion (Oaths of Office and Secrecy), réception des serments d'office (administration of oaths of office), commissaire aux serments (commissioner for oaths, commissioner for taking oaths, commissioner of oaths), commissaire aux affidavits (commissioner for oaths). (various references)

German

Schwuere. (various references)

Italian

giuramenti. (various references)

Korean 

선서 (OATH). (various references)

Pig Latin

oathsay

Portuguese

tabelião (commissioner for oaths, notary public, notation, Scrivener). (various references)

Russian 

разразиться бранью (discharge oaths). (various references)

Spanish

juramentos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words containing "OATHS": loathsome, loathsomely, loathsomeness, loathsomenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"OATHS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caths, loaths, oaaah, oates, oathe, oathes, oathis, oathys, oatis, oauh, oeth, oftahis, onath, ooth, Otash, oth, othos, owths, raths, Uahs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hosta, shoat.

-1 letter: hast, hats, host, hots, oast, oath, oats, shat, shot, soth, stoa, taos, tosh.

-2 letters: ash, hao, has, hat, hot, oat, ohs, sat, sha, sot, tao, tas, tho.

-3 letters: ah, as, at, ha, ho, oh, os, sh, so, ta, to.

+1 letter: azoths, bathos, hostas, lotahs, pathos, potash, shoats, torahs.

+2 letters: authors, cahoots, dashpot, earshot, fathoms, goatish, harlots, hostage, isobath, isotach, loathes, mahouts, matzohs, outwash, shallot, shortia, stomach, teashop, thorias, throats, toadish, washout.

+3 letters: achiotes, actorish, althorns, anethols, aphorist, aphthous, apothems, astonish, athodyds, bathoses, bushgoat, calathos, cathodes, cathouse, chantors, chariots, chayotes, chitosan, cholates, cohabits, dashpots, earshots, eschalot, ethanols, goatfish, handouts, hangouts, haplonts, hardtops, haricots, hatboxes, hautbois, hautboys, haylofts, headmost, hemostat, hoariest, hoarsest, hoatzins, holdfast, homestay, hoptoads, hospital, hospitia, hostages, hotcakes, hotheads, housesat, isobaths, isotachs, kathodes, loathers, mammoths, manihots, moschate, naphtols, oghamist, outhauls, outhears, outshame, oxhearts, parashot, pathoses, phaetons, phantoms, phaseout, phonates, phorates, pooftahs, postheat, potashes, potheads, potshard, ratholes, rheostat, sawtooth, shakeout, shallots, shoalest, shoptalk, shortage, shortias, showboat, snapshot, softhead, somewhat, soothsay, soutache, southpaw, spathose, stanhope, stomachs, stomachy, tachyons, tallyhos, tapholes, taphouse, tarboosh, teahouse, teashops, teraohms, thallous, thanatos, thiazols, thoraces, thoraxes, thousand, toadfish, toadyish, tovarish, towheads, towpaths, trochars, warthogs, washouts, whatnots, woolhats, xanthous.

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