Ring-oath

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An oath sworn upon a finger ring.

    ""The wall is growing apace," he said. "And we swore an unbreakable oath, a ring-oath and a weapon-oath, that if he finishes building his wall in time, we will give him the sun and the moon[.]""

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""The wall is growing apace," he said. "And we swore an unbreakable oath, a ring-oath and a weapon-oath, that if he finishes building his wall in time, we will give him the sun and the moon[.]""

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