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Why does "By Jove!" appear in Early Modern English literature? Wouldn't it have been seen as blasphemy to invoke a pagan god? Or was Jove at that point seen as a contraction of Jehovah, with its pagan origins forgotten?
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an earlier answer
on the topic, if you're interested. :)