All 6 Uses of
perjury
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- Why, he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers.†
Scene 4.3perjure = break the law by telling lies after formally promising to tell the truth
- Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, 'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument, Persuade my heart to this false perjury?†
Scene 4.3perjury = the criminal offense of telling lies after formally promising to tell the truth
- Some salve for perjury.†
Scene 4.3
- Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury.†
Scene 5.2
- Now, to our perjury to add more terror, We are again forsworn, in will and error.†
Scene 5.2
- You are attaint with faults and perjury;
Scene 5.2 *perjury = making false statements
Definition:
the criminal offense of telling lies after formally promising to tell the truth -- such as when testifying in a court trial