perjurer

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English

Etymology

From perjure +‎ -er.

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Noun

perjurer (plural perjurers)

  1. 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:
      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.
    • 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. , London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1841, →OCLC:
      Come in, you false witness, you perjurer, you suborner of evidence, come in!

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