Perjure vs Perdure - What's the difference?
perjure | perdure |
(reflexive) To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court.
To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt.
* Shakespeare
To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
* J. Fletcher
to endure; especially for a great length of time
(philosophy) to exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism)
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As verbs the difference between perjure and perdure
is that perjure is while perdure is to endure; especially for a great length of time.perjure
English
Verb
(en-verb)- He perjured himself.
- Want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
- And with a virgin innocence did pray / For me, that perjured her.