perjurer
nounCA /ˈpəɹdʒəɹəɹ/
Etymology From perjure + -er.
1
someone who has committed perjury by lying under oath
- Here are none exempted or excluded, be they never so prophane or wretched, no Atheist, adulterer, thief, or murderer, no lyer, perjurer, Witch or conjurer, &c· al are one fellowship, one body, one Church.1607, Henry Ainsworth, The confession of faith of certayn English people living in exile, in the Low countreyes:
- Come in, you false witness, you perjurer, you suborner of evidence, come in!1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- false witness, knight of the post
- Derived terms
- perjuress