Completely to abandon the offensive state of mind is to forswear victory.
"Sound Military Decision"
U.s. Naval War College
"But I had nigh forgot, so unused am I to society and the usages thereof,"-he said, turning back with an engaging smile, "Alfred de Courtenay, known in that world across the water; and which my taste, or that of itself, more properly speaking, has caused me to forswear for some length of time, as Mad Alfred, I am, M'sieu-?"
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe
It was not because she was assailed by some transient emotion to forswear her treacherous desire for vengeance; she had no illusion of that kind.
"The Girl of the Golden West"
David Belasco