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perjurer|ˈpɜːdʒərə(r)|
Also 6 -our.
[app. a. AF. par-, perjurour, f. parjurer to perjure: see -or. (Few examples from 1650 to 19th c.)]
One who commits perjury, spec. in the legal sense; one who proves false to an oath or solemn promise; one who is forsworn or has perjured himself.
1553Bale tr. Gardiner's De Vera Obed. Pref., Couetous catchers, doublefaced periurours. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Parjure, a forsworne man, a Periurer. 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint., Rules & Lessons viii, The perjurer's a devil let loose. 1755Johnson, Perjurer, one that swears falsely. 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 317 The perjurers were allowed to slip out of court without even a reprimand. 1878Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xviii. 49 He was a perjurer who on a false plea had raised the nation against Richard.
So ˈperjuress, a female perjurer.
1898Speaker 8 Oct. 432/2 A perjuress cannot be flogged, and no one at present proposes to flog her. |