to perjure
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9.9
- verb
- /ˈpɜrʤər/
- Formal
:
perjurar
- Second, the right against self-incrimination doesn't prevent you from testifying because you might perjure yourself.
- perjured testimony
- perjured himself under oath
- perjured affidavit
Now, as I understand it, there was a finding that he had perjured himself in a prior murder case.
- Now, as I understand it, there was a finding that he had perjured himself in a prior murder case.
- Well, that's sounds like you perjured yourself beyond that.
Examples
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Because evidence is given on oath, and he will not perjure himself.
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Clearly, he has either perjured himself at trial, or in front of this court.
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Am I to understand that all of us high officers of state... are required to perjure ourselves to ensure your safety?
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For any party official to do so would be to perjure him or herself.
Blog text (16) -
It's like telling law students it's wrong to perjure yourself.
Academic text (1994) -
You let my client sit here and potentially perjure himself and all this time, you had a recording?
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Let me save you from perjuring yourself.
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But he certainly wouldn't perjure himself.
Fiction book (2000) -
You perjured yourself, Edgar, and the lie was an easily provable one.
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The defendant chose to perjure himself rather than admit the truth about his actions.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
perjure = per + jure
Although the form can be analysed as per- + jure, these are not productive modern English morphemes and the legal sense 'to lie under oath' is not derivable by an average B1 learner from the parts.
Etymology
Perjure comes from Latin parts per- meaning 'wrongly' and jurare meaning 'to swear', the same root you see in jury and justice. So to perjure yourself is to 'wrongly swear', to say something false under oath in court.