hard swearing
Law (now historical )
noun
Persistent swearing (as a witness) to the truth of a particular statement, regardless of strong claims or evidence as to its falsity; (hence euphemism ) perjury.
Origin
Mid 18th century.
- languaged
- language death
- language disorder
- language engineer
- language engineering
- language event
- language family
- language game
- language group
- language-impaired
- language lab
- language laboratory
- languageless
- language loyalty
- language master
- language nest
- language of flowers
- language organ
- language-particular
- language planner
- language planning
- language police
- languager
- language rights
- language school