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Lying vs Perjury - What's the difference?

lying | perjury |

As nouns the difference between lying and perjury

is that lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood while perjury is (legal) the deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.

As a verb lying

is .

lying

English

(wikipedia lying)

Verb

(head)
  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?

    perjury

    English

    (wikipedia perjury)

    Noun

    (perjuries)
  • (legal) The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.
    • We declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct and that this declaration was executed on March 22, 2005, at Seattle, Washington.

    Synonyms

    * (l)