subornation
Noun
Meaning
The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.
The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
crime
corruption
submission
obedience
mastery
coercion
conformity
servitude
bribery
bribe
blackmail
subordination
inferiority
incitement
compulsion
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The immunity enjoyed by witnesses began also to be whittled down or interfered with by the parliament in England in 1540 with subornation of perjury and, in 1562, with perjury proper.
Starr then broadened his investigation beyond the Arkansas land use deal to include Lewinsky, Clinton, and others for possible perjury and subornation of perjury in the Jones case.