parjure

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See also: parjuré

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paʁ.ʒyʁ/
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Noun

parjure m (plural parjures)

  1. forswearing, abjuration
  2. betrayal, disloyalty, treachery
  3. betrayer, traitor, disloyal person
    • 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act I, scene 2:
      Je garde à Curiace une amitié trop pure / Pour souffrir plus longtemps qu’on m’estime parjure.
      I hold too pure of an amity towards Curiace / For me to bear them seeing me as unfaithful for long.

Verb

parjure

  1. inflection of parjurer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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