What's the difference between forsworn and perjured?

Forsworn


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Forswear
  • () p. p. of Forswear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Xi Jinping, the president of China, makes his state visit to the UK this week, he will bring a message of forgiveness – for Britain’s now forsworn attempts to “interfere with China’s internal affairs” such as human rights and Tibet – and hope.
  • (2) Processors have forsworn long complex trading arrangements.
  • (3) The SD becomes the only decency they find in a political landscape where everything else is hypocritical and forsworn.
  • (4) If anyone could claim to be leading by example in an age of austerity, it is José Mujica, Uruguay's president, who has forsworn a state palace in favour of a farmhouse, donates the vast bulk of his salary to social projects, flies economy class and drives an old Volkswagen Beetle.

Perjured


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Perjure
  • (a.) Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sheridan was conducting his own defence at Glasgow high court in 2010, in his words "fighting for his life" against charges that he had perjured himself in 2006 during his infamous libel trial against the NoW.
  • (2) Its police authority expressed concern that there may have been “inaccurate perjured evidence at the very least”, but in a report on 25 September 1985, Wright assured them that was not the case .
  • (3) "If someone perjured themselves in a Scottish court, that makes it a wholly Scottish matter and it will be dealt with wholly by the Scottish authorities and the Scottish courts," he said.
  • (4) Again, with Geraldine Proudler and George Carman on our case, we won a dramatic high court battle after producing, mid-trial; the airline tickets, which proved that Aitken had given perjured evidence.
  • (5) The IPCC, in its report into Orgreave last June, said it believed the settlement was “very much prompted” by South Yorkshire police having privately acknowledged that some officers did “overreact” on the day, and had perjured themselves in court.
  • (6) It is clear that in many parts of the world constituted by Australian trade union officials, there is room for louts, thugs, bullies, thieves, perjurers, those who threaten violence, errant fiduciaries and organisers of boycotts,” it said.
  • (7) In the UK, both the late John Profumo , who gave his name to a "scandal", and Jonathan Aitken, who perjured himself in a court action against the Guardian , illustrate the long and rocky road to redemption.
  • (8) In 1957 her father, testifying in court under the malign influence of Richard Crossman in a libel action against the Spectator denied drunkenness at a conference in Venice, thus successfully perjuring himself.
  • (9) Perjurers can face unlimited imprisonment in Scotland.
  • (10) In a city like Baltimore, you can sit in your radio car and make a drug arrest without understanding or requiring probable cause [reasonable suspicion], without worrying about how you're going to testify in court without perjuring yourself, without learning how to use and not be used by an informant, without learning how to write a search and seizure warrant, without doing any of the requisite things that makes a good cop into a great cop, somebody that can solve a murder, a rape, a robbery, a burglary.

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