Ninth Commandment

American  

noun

1. “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”: ninth of the Ten Commandments.

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Example Sentences

A. The Ninth Commandment is: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.

The duty of the Ninth Commandment is to love the truth, not to backbite and slander, to speak well of all men; the contrary is lying, backbiting, and to speak evil of another.

From Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Bell, Captain Henry

In the concrete I may add that Mr. Wilson's misrepresentations of what I have said seem to indicate that he regards the new freedom as freedom from all obligation to obey the Ninth Commandment.

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Roosevelt, Theodore

"And when I came up here with father, she kissed me, and told me to remember the Ninth Commandment, and that God would hear every word that I said."

From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes