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Perjurer   /pˈərdʒərər/   Listen
Perjurer

noun
1.
A person who deliberately gives false testimony.  Synonym: false witness.






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"Perjurer" Quotes from Famous Books



... publicity as is now the case with banks and insurance companies, and when the circulation liar and swindler shall be amenable to the same law and liable to the same penalty as stands against and is visited upon any other perjurer and thief. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 • Various

... had the same origin. It was once believed that the man in the wrong could not kill the man in the right; but, experience having shown that he usually did, the belief gradually fell into disrepute. So it was once thought that a perjurer could not swallow a piece of sacramental bread; but, the fear that made the swallowing difficult having passed away, the appeal to the corsned was abolished. It was found that a brazen or a desperate man could eat himself ...
— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll

... the perjurer's soul o'erwhelms, Serene the false one stands: He flatters, and Kings of mighty realms Are as clay ...
— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin

... Commissioners for Trade and Plantations with a complete list of Moravian bishops and pastors, together with their handwriting and seal; and, finally, anyone who falsely claimed to belong to the Brethren's Church was to be punished as a wilful perjurer. ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton

... warrants for the arrest of persons charged with such a serious crime as high treason on the strength of an affidavit signed by a detective, who, on the very day such affidavit was signed, had been denounced by the Chief Justice from the Bench of the High Court as a perjurer." C. 9,521 (which contains a full record of the ...
— Lord Milner's Work in South Africa - From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 • W. Basil Worsfold



Words linked to "Perjurer" :   prevaricator, perjure, liar, false witness



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