bearing false witness

1. 1.

   criminal offense of making false statements under oath

   Synonymsperjurylying under oath

   Broadermisdemeanor

Questions about bearing false witness

What does bearing false witness mean?

bearing false witness means "criminal offense of making false statements under oath".

What is another word for bearing false witness?

Close synonyms include perjury, lying under oath. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bearing false witness a common word?

bearing false witness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.