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Definition: Perjury |
PerjuryNoun1. Criminal offense of making false statements under oath. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "perjury" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Perjury \Per"ju*ry\, noun; plural Perjuries. [Latin expression perjurium. See Perjure, verb.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Military & Defense | An offence against the administration of justice committed by a person who appears as a witness in court proceedings and gives false evidence in relation to the case. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiable false statements under oath, especially when it happens in a law court. Perjury can be a crime because the witness has sworn to tell the truth, and for the credibility of the court, witness testimony must be relied on as being truthful. Not all mistatements of fact are perjury however, people make inaccurate statements all the time, they may do so in an inadvertent manner. An individual may have an honest but mistaken belief about a certain fact, or the individual's recollection may be inaccurate. Like all other crimes in the common law system perjury requires one to have the mens rea and actus reus necessary to prove the elements of a crime.
In some countries such as France, suspects cannot be heard under oath and thus do not commit perjury, whatever they say during their trial.
Perjury also applies to witnesses who affirm they are telling the truth, rather than swear an oath or in a statement that is made under penalty of perjury even if it has not been sworn or affirmed to before a notary public or other public officer authorized under law to take oaths.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Perjury."
Synonyms: PerjurySynonyms: bearing false witness (n), lying under oath (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Noun: falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception; untruth; guile; lying; untruth; guile; lying; Verb: misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Perjury |
| English words defined with "perjury": intrinsic fraud ♦ oath, Oathbreaking ♦ perjure, Perjured, Perjuries, Perjurous ♦ subornation, swearing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "perjury": Banishment, Briars, Bulldog ♦ Hook, Hooks ♦ OATH ♦ perjury by an expert witness. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Perjury (1921) | |
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Economic History | Oman | There exists, however, the right of review after a judgment is issued in cases where new documents are discovered or irregularities (forgery, perjury) found. (references) |
Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The four police officers subsequently were fired under pressure from the IPTF and then in September were convicted of perjury. (references) |
Political Economy | COLOMBIA | The most recent available data from the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) suggests that U.S. industries continue to lose substantial revenue from piracy-$193 million in 2000. Enforcement problems consistently arise not only with inadequate police activity, but also in the judicial system, where there have been complaints about the lack of respect for preservation of evidence and frequent perjury. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. |
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| "Perjury" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perjury" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 67 | 40,952 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "perjury". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Elah | N/A | Biblical | Perjury |
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Expressions using "perjury": commit perjury ♦ perjury by an expert witness. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
perjury | 70 |
penalty perjury | 20 |
comp perjury worker | 13 |
penalties perjury | 3 |
perjury law | 3 |
aggravated perjury | 3 |
definition perjury | 3 |
perjury punishment | 2 |
penalty perjury statement | 2 |
perjury attorney | 2 |
perjury police | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "perjury"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pabesi (disloyalty, falseness, falsity, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, unfaithfulness), shkelje e betimit, dëshmi e rreme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قسم كاذب, حنث باليمين, شهادة كذب, شهادة زور (false testimony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | клетвопрестъпничество, вероломство (disloyalty, perfidy), лъжесвидетелствуване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 偽證 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | křivá přísaha. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | meineed (false statement under oath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نقض عهد (Breach, Perfidy), گواهی دروغ , سوگندشکنی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | väärä vala (false statement under oath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | parjure (perjurer, perjures), faux témoignage (perjuring), faux serment. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Meineid (false statement under oath), Eidbruch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψευδορκία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שבועת שקר, עו ש שבוע", זמם (intrigue, machination, plot, scheme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hamis eskü (false swearing, forswearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sumpah palsu (to forswear oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spergiuro (perjurer), giuramento falso (false statement under oath), falsa testimonianza (false evidence, false testimony, false witness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 偽" (false oath), 偽証 (false evidence, false testimony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぎしょう (assuming a false name, false evidence, false testimony, playful laughter), ぎせい (bluff, copy, deceiving an enemy, false oath, forgery, imitation, legal fiction, pseudo, sacrifice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | oaiys, oaieys, oaiaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erjurypay falso juramento (false statement under oath). (various references) sperjur (forswearer, oath-breaker, perjured, perjurer), jurãmânt fals, calcare a unui jurãmânt, calcare a jurãmântului. (various references) лжесвидетельство. (various references) laganje pred sudom, krivokletstvo. (various references) perjurio. (various references) mened (false statement under oath). (various references) yeminini bozma, yalancı şahitlik, yalan yere yemin (false oath). (various references) клятвопорушення (oath-breaking), лжесвідчення. (various references) sự thề ẩu, lời thề ẩu sự khai man trước to , lời khai man trước to sự phản bội lời thề. (various references) anudoniaeth, anudonedd, anudon (false oath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | periurium, perjurium. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Perjury" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gerjuoy, Pajari, Parbury, Paruyr, perfury, pergury, perijury, perjory, prejury, purjury, Yerbury. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "perjury" (pronounced per"jerē) |
| 4 | -er" j er ē | Neurosurgery, surgery. |
| 3 | -j er ē | drudgery, forgery, gingery, injury, menagerie. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-j-p-r-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: jerry, perry, pryer, purer. | |
-3 letters: jupe, jury, prey, pure, purr, pyre, ruer. | |
-4 letters: err, jeu, per, pry, pur, pye, rep, rue, rye, yep, yup. | |
-5 letters: er, pe, re, up, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-j-p-r-r-u-y" | |
+5 letters: perjuriously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 6A 75 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. .--- ..- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01101010 01110101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r j u r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 006A 0075 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718476878491 |
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