Perjury vs Perjure - What's the difference?
perjury | perjure |
(legal) The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.
(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 a noun perjury
is (legal) the deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.As a verb perjure is
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(wikipedia perjury)Noun
(perjuries)- 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)perjure
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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.