Home › Words › O › overswearoverswearoverswear means to swear excessively; to make too many oaths.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, overswear ranks #10,435 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom over- + swear.verbTo swear excessively; to make too many oaths.e.g.“[…] early modern Catholic theologians needed to curb the tendency of overswearing in order to institutionalize and regulate the oath more firmly as a sacrament of power.” — 2013, Stefania Tutino, Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture, page 153:To swear over again, or in opposition to the oath sworn by another.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).