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juramento xinia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
juramento xinia.
Principal English Translation: 

to break or let go of an oath (see Molina; partly a loanword from Spanish, juramento, oath)

Orthographic Variants: 
iuramento xinia
Alonso de Molina: 

iuramento xinia tito. (pret. otito juramento xinique.) soltar el juramento.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 44v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.