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

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

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

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.

"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