negative oath
noun
1= negative confession (now historical ).
2(Now also) a promise not to do something or to abstain from something.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in The Hamilton Papers: being selections from original letters in the possession of the Duke of Hamilton.
- justifiable homicide
- justifiableness
- justifiably
- justificable
- justification
- justificative
- justificator
- justificatory
- justified
- justifier
- justify
- justifying faith
- justifyingly
- justifying stick
- (just) in case
- Justinian
- Justinianean
- Justinianian
- Justinianic
- Justinianist
- Justin, St
- just-in-time
- just intonation
- justitial
- justitium