Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Guilty of perjury; that has sworn falsely, or is false to vows or protestations: as, a perjured villain.
- Deliberately or wilfully broken or falsified.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
perjure .
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Examples
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Who would suffer himself publicly to be called a perjured villain?
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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In a white-heat of wrath and sorrow Frithjof starts out to call her perjured brothers to account.
Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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Page 9 boast of Gen. Butler has been in part achieved of holding up what he is pleased to term a perjured people to the derision of mankind.
The Oath of Allegiance to the United States, Discussed in its Moral and Political Bearings Benjamin Morgan 1863
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He whom his adversaries describe as a perjured Prelatist, is desirous that his predecessors should be held moderate in their power, and just in their execution of its privileges, when truly, the unimpassioned peruser of the annals of those times shall deem them sanguinary, violent, and tyrannical.
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Who would suffer himself publickly to be called a perjured villain?
Letter from Henry Chambers to John Steele, September 17, 1805 1805
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He whom his adversaries describe as a perjured Prelatist, is desirous that his predecessors should be held moderate in their power, and just in their execution of its privileges, when truly, the unimpassioned peruser of the annals of those times shall deem them sanguinary, violent, and tyrannical.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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He whom his adversaries describe as a perjured Prelatist, is desirous that his predecessors should be held moderate in their power, and just in their execution of its privileges, when truly, the unimpassioned peruser of the annals of those times shall deem them sanguinary, violent, and tyrannical.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"He could not be called perjured, since he never took that sacrilegious covenant."
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On Tuesday, two Knightstown, Ind., homeowners who were foreclosed on filed a federal-court lawsuit against Bank of America, claiming they were deprived of their property because of "perjured" affidavits.
Regulator for Fannie Set to Get Litigious Nick Timiraos 2010
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We were right, it seems, in putting some stress on that "perjured" when we first met it.
The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893
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