perjuries
Meaning of perjuries
- the offence of wilfully telling an untruth or making a misrepresentation under oath.
he claimed two witnesses at his trial had committed perjury
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French perjurie, from Latin perjurium ‘false oath’, from the verb perjurare (see perjure).
Information about perjuries
- It is a name.
- The singular form of perjuries is: perjury.
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Hyphenation of perjuries
per-juries
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- perjuries is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
perjuries synonyms
Meaning untruthfulness:
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