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Answer for the clue "False witness ", 8 letters:
perjurer
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Word definitions for perjurer in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who deliberately gives false testimony [syn: false witness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. someone who has committed perjury by lie under oath
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perjurer \Per"jur*er\, n. One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or forswears, in any sense.
Usage examples of perjurer.
Biscarrat, repulsed by his friends, not able to accompany them, without passing in the eyes of Porthos and Aramis for a traitor and a perjurer, with painfully attentive ear and still supplicating hands leaned against the rough side of a rock which he thought must be exposed to the fire of the musketeers.
I am no better in my own eyes than a perjurer, unworthy of Mademoiselle de Vesian, to whom I brought a heart devoured by remorse and by a passion that nothing could extinguish.
They are perjurers and traitors, and in addition, the oath they administer to us is under compulsion and for that reason is of no account.
In my brief sojourn I'd been an impostor and perjurer (as Comber), stolen slaves (under the names of Prescott, Arnold, and, I rather think, Fitzroy Howard or something like that), and was wanted for murders I hadn't committed in Mississippi, or it may have been Tennessee for all I know, as well as for aiding and abetting (which I hadn't done, either) Spring's stabbing of Omohundro.
He then ordered two Crema prisoners carried below the walls and, below the walls, he tried them as perjurers and traitors, sentencing them to death.
He knows that if he retracts yet again he will be condemned as a recidivist and perjurer.
For this reason, now that he is warned, if he persists in his resistance, he is a criminal and merits every kind of chastisements[25], for, he declares himself a rebel and a perjurer, inimical to humanity, and a traitor to the social compact.
Their track records on truth-telling are somewhat more impressive than those of America's Most Famous Perjurer and his wife.