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Gender Masculine
Usage English (Puritan)
Meaning & History
Old English from the Germanic base of Old English swīfan ‘move in a course, sweep’. As a name, it is used in reference to the Biblical verse in James 1:19, "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath."