perjury
Meaning of perjury
noun
- the offence of wilfully telling an untruth or making a misrepresentation under oath.
he claimed two witnesses at his trial had committed perjury
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French perjurie, from Latin perjurium ‘false oath’, from the verb perjurare (see perjure).
Information about perjury
- It is a name.
- The plural form of perjury is: perjuries.
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Hyphenation of perjury
per-jury
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- perjury is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
perjury synonyms
Meaning untruthfulness:
Translation of perjury
Words that rhyme with perjury
jury, bajury, conjury, injury, noninjury, nonjury, preinjury, reinjury, nonperjury
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