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- noun Someone who
breaks anoath
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Examples
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And word once given could not be taken back without becoming an oathbreaker.
Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010
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I regard -him- as cruel, abusive, and unfit for any position as an official of the US Government--and an oathbreaker for his views about waterboarding and the non-applicability of the Constitution.
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What kind of idiot would make a child into an oathbreaker?
Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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That did not mean "male witch", the way current popular literature had it, but "oathbreaker."
Jinx High Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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That makes him an oathbreaker, and puts him on the negative side of the karmic ledger, which in turn makes him open to subversion, or even attack.
Jinx High Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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And word once given could not be taken back without becoming an oathbreaker.
Winds Of Fury Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Four clans had come to find an oathbreaker, and when they had killed him, they returned to the Three-fold Land.
The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993
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I talked to Antryg when he signed all those papers they wanted him to sign last night -- meddler, oathbreaker, and mad, yes, completely mad.
The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988
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"Yes," answered Solbern at his brother's shoulder, "this night Wodan fetches you, oathbreaker, and ill is that house to which he will take you."
Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983
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I am certainly not an oathbreaker like members of your beloved labour party.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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