单词 | to bear false witness |
释义 | > as lemmasto bear (†speak) false witness a. Of a statement: Purposely untrue; mendacious. Frequently in to bear (†speak) false witness: to testify falsely. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [adjective] > of statement, etc.: untrue falsec1175 lyinga1225 truthless1568 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [verb (intransitive)] > bear false witness to bear (speak) false witnessc1175 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 13 Ne spec þu aȝein þine nexta nane false witnesse. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 40/223 Betere is trewe dede þane fals word. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 593 I have..for trew or fals report..ilovede the al my lyve. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 80 To bakbite, and to bosten, and bere fals witnesse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 26234 Fals wijtnes and trouth breking. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4635 He was prisounde wiþ fals reede. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) v. i. sig. H.ij See that no false surmises thou me tell. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings ix. 12 And they said, It is false . View more context for this quotation 1637 T. Jackson Treat. Signs Times 66 in Diverse Serm. False witnesse-bearing, and coveting their neighbours goods are farre more rife amongst us then they were. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. vi. 177 Afterwards this report was controlled to be false. 1678 Earl of Arran in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. lxv. 100 He found all to be false as hell. 1813 Ld. Ellenborough in Ho. Lords 22 Mar. The accusation is as false as hell in every part! 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 269 She came to bear false witness in her sister's cause. 1833 C. F. Crusé tr. Eusebius Eccl. Hist. (ed. 2) i. vii. 32 Neither of the gospels has made a false statement. < as lemmas |
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