Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who suborns; one who procures another to do a bad action, especially to take a false oath.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
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- noun One who
suborns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act
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Examples
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Reno's boss, a perjurer, suborner of perjury, obstructor of justice (when is that disbarment hearing?), set the stage for government violence against Elian's relatives.
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A skilled suborner of clerks, Victor had assembled enough information to cover the desk, starting with a photocopy of the internal passport for Nikolai Sergeevich Isakov, an ethnic Russian born in Tver.
Stalin's Ghost Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 2007
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The suborner of: extortion, wholesale bribery, beatings, bombings, management side deals and epic abuse of union funds.
American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995
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But I can truly say, that the grief with which I read this rhapsody of predetermined insult, had the rhapsodist himself for its whole and sole object: and that the indignant contempt which it excited in me was as exclusively confined to his employer and suborner.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman
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The result of this ordeal is, of course, triumphant; and Thersander, overwhelmed with confusion makes his escape from the popular indignation, and is condemned to exile by acclamation as a suborner of false evidence; while the lovers, freed at length from all their troubles, sail for Byzantium in company with Sostratus; and after there solemnizing their own nuptials, return to Tyre to assist at those of Callisthenes and Calligone.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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He's a shyster, a suborner of perjury and a jury-briber.
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1935
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He had to listen to exposure after exposure of the tricks which Guffey had played; he had to hear the district attorney of the county denounced as a suborner of perjury, and his agents as blackmailers and forgers.
100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923
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He had to listen to exposure after exposure of the tricks which Guffey had played; he had to hear the district attorney of the county denounced as a suborner of perjury, and his agents as blackmailers and forgers.
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Et dans son Roman on apprendra l'art de suborner philosophiquement une jeune fille.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880
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He forgave her, he said, because she was innocent; and as for the suborner of his honour he could not punish him: nothing but death could avenge such a crime, and how could he lay violent hands on a dignitary of the Church?
Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People Dr. Henri Blanc 1871
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