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false swearing
noun as in perjury
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Among all tribes, among all people, truth-telling has been considered a virtue and false swearing or false speaking a vice.
The same evening the grand jury returned indictments against the two young ladies for “false swearing.”
And so we find that Judge Zane had to dismiss one case altogether, owing to the lack of evidence through false swearing.
I might have broken out into false swearing—vowed that I did love her; but I could not lie in her pure face.
In April 1754 she was arrested on a charge of perjury or false swearing, and sent to stand her trial at the Old Bailey.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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