Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of procuring wrongfully.
- noun The act of procuring one by persuasion, bribery, etc., to do a criminal or bad action; specifically, in law, the crime of procuring perjured testimony; procuring a witness to commit the crime of perjury: more specifically called
subornation of perjury .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.
- noun The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
suborning - noun The
procuring of someone to do acriminal act, especially to commitperjury
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful
- noun perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give
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Examples
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On its face, "points to make in an affidavit" is what lawyers call subornation of perjury.
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On its face, "points to make in an affidavit" is what lawyers call subornation of perjury.
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Yet today, the Post reported that this kind of subornation of false statements was a standard operating procedure for Hillary (as well as Bill).
Quote Of The Day 2009
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If one may judge from the experience of Bougainville, this kind of subornation would be somewhat difficult of accomplishment.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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SDN: By infiltration, or subornation of associates, or just not being an unrealistic and or naive person such as yourself.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech 2010
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All is governed by the plea bargain system, the wholesale extortion and subornation of perjury in exchange for immunity or a reduced sentence.
Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor Conrad Black 2012
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All is governed by the plea bargain system, the wholesale extortion and subornation of perjury in exchange for immunity or a reduced sentence.
Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor Conrad Black 2012
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But two thirds of the American people say that, if indeed the President of the United States committed perjury, subornation of perjury, tampering with witnesses, and committed a series of sexual indiscretions that it should make no difference because the country is doing so well.
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It seems to me that we would be looking at the possibility of perjury (Freshwater) and/or subornation of perjury (Hamilton).
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It seems to me that we would be looking at the possibility of perjury (Freshwater) and/or subornation of perjury (Hamilton).
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