parjure
See also: parjuré
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editparjure m (plural parjures)
- forswearing, abjuration
- betrayal, disloyalty, treachery
- betrayer, traitor, disloyal person
- 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act I, scene 2:
- Je garde à Curiace une amitié trop pure / Pour souffrir plus longtemps qu’on m’estime parjure.
- I hold too pure of an amity towards Curiace / For me to bear them seeing me as unfaithful for long.
Related terms
editVerb
editparjure
- inflection of parjurer:
Further reading
edit- “parjure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.