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SUBORNATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subornation mean? 

SUBORNATION (noun)
  The noun SUBORNATION has 2 senses:

1. underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawfulplay

2. perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to giveplay

  Familiarity information: SUBORNATION used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUBORNATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("subornation" is a kind of...):

incitement; provocation (needed encouragement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subornation"):

subornation of perjury ((law) inducing someone to make a false oath as part of a judicial proceeding)

Derivation:

suborn (incite to commit a crime or an evil deed)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("subornation" is a kind of...):

testimony (a solemn statement made under oath)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

suborn (induce to commit perjury or give false testimony)

suborn (procure (false testimony or perjury))


 Context examples 


Perjury, oppression, subornation, fraud, pandarism, and the like infirmities, were among the most excusable arts they had to mention; and for these I gave, as it was reasonable, great allowance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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