Subornation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
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  • noun. The act of suborning
  • noun. The procuring of someone to do a criminal act, especially to commit perjury
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  • noun. underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful
  • noun. perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give
    • Word Usage
    "On its face, "points to make in an affidavit" is what lawyers call subornation of perjury."
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    testimony  
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    apostacy  arm-twisting  blandishment  cajolery  calumniation  
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