Unsworn

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with, and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible because the person quoted was unsworn and is not before the court for examination; yet most momentous actions, military, political, commercial and of every other kind, are daily undertaken on hearsay evidence. There is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the testimony of men long dead whose identity is not clearly established and who are not known to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law. It cannot be proved that the battle of Blenheim ever was fought, that there was such as person as Julius Caesar, such an empire as Assyria. But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.
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Usage Frequency: Unsworn

"Unsworn" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsworn" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translation: Unsworn

Language		Translations for "unsworn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që nuk bëri be, jo i lidhur me be. (various references)

Bulgarian		незаклет, неположил клетва, не под клетва. (various references)

Czech		příè.min. od unswear. (various references)

French		témoin non assermenté (unsworn witness), témoigner hors serment (to testify unsworn), témoignage non solennel (unsworn evidence, unsworn testimony), témoignage hors serment (unsworn evidence, unsworn testimony), preuve non solennelle (unsworn evidence), preuve hors serment (unsworn evidence), déposition hors serment (unsworn testimony), déclaration non solennelle (unsworn declaration, unsworn statement), déclaration hors serment (unsworn statement). (various references)

German		unbeeidet. (various references)

Hungarian		fel nem esketett. (various references)

Pig Latin		ornunsway

Portuguese		não jurado. (various references)

Russian		не связанный клятвой, не давший присяги. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		opovrgnut. (various references)

Turkish		yeminsiz. (various references)

Vietnamese		không được tuyên thệ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Unsworn

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "n-n-o-r-s-u-w"
	-1 letter: unsown, unworn.
	-2 letters: nouns, sworn, swoun, unwon.
	-3 letters: noun, nous, nows, nuns, onus, ours, owns, rows, runs, snow, sorn, sour, sown, sunn, urns, wons, worn.
	-4 letters: nor, nos, now, nun, nus, ons, ors, our, own, row, run, son, sou, sow, sun, uns, urn, won, wos.
	-5 letters: no, nu, on, or, os, ow, so, un, us.
	Words containing the letters "n-n-o-r-s-u-w"
	+1 letter: rundowns, uncrowns.
	+2 letters: downturns, sundowner, turndowns.
	+3 letters: sundowners.
	+5 letters: unnewsworthy, untowardness, unworthiness, wondrousness, wrongfulness.
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