subornation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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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

Etymology

From suborn + -ation.

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Perjury, oppression, subornation, fraud, pandarism, and the like infirmities, were among the most excusable arts they had to mention; and for these I gave, as it was reasonable, great allowance. — Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Jonathan Swift
Oh, you Englishmen, I ask you how does this subornation show in one of yourselves, who is thus consenting to his own undoing and to yours, and to your children’s and your children’s children’s?’ There was some applause, and some crying of Shame upon the man; but the greater part of the audience were quiet. — Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Barsad,” he went on, in the tone of one who really was looking over a hand at cards: “Sheep of the prisons, emissary of Republican committees, now turnkey, now prisoner, always spy and secret informer, so much the more valuable here for being English that an Englishman is less open to suspicion of subornation in those characters than a Frenchman, represents himself to his employers under a false name. — A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

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Broader (hypernyms): provocation
Narrower (hyponyms): subornation of perjury

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