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Perjure vs Perdure - What's the difference?

perjure | perdure |

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)
  • (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.
  • He perjured himself.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
  • To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
  • * J. Fletcher
  • And with a virgin innocence did pray / For me, that perjured her.

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A perjured person.
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    perdure

    English

    Verb

  • 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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