PERJURER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perjurer mean? 

• PERJURER (noun)
  The noun PERJURER has 1 sense:

1. a person who deliberately gives false testimony

  Familiarity information: PERJURER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERJURER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who deliberately gives false testimony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

false witness; perjurer

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

liar; prevaricator (a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly)

Derivation:

perjure (knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury)

 Context examples 

I—a—I'll know nobody—and—a—say nothing—and—a—live nowhere—until I have crushed—to—a—undiscoverable atoms—the—transcendent and immortal hypocrite and perjurer—HEEP!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)