Perjurer vs Perjure - What's the difference?
perjurer | perjure |
someone who has committed perjury by lying under oath
* 1607 : Henry Ainsworth, The confession of faith of certayn English people living in exile, in the Low countreyes
* 1841 : Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
(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
As nouns the difference between perjurer and perjure
is that perjurer is someone who has committed perjury by lying under oath while perjure is a perjured person.As a verb perjure is
to knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court.perjurer
English
Noun
(en noun)- Here are none exempted or excluded, be they never so prophane or wretched, no Atheist, adulterer, thief, or murderer, no lyer, perjurer , Witch or conjurer, &c· al are one fellowship, one body, one Church.
- Come in, you false witness, you perjurer , you suborner of evidence, come in!
Synonyms
*false witness *knight of the postperjure
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.