Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who betrays; a traitor; a seducer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, betrays.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
betrays , orreveals confidential information ; asquealer orinformer . - noun A
double-crosser .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who says one thing and does another
- noun one who reveals confidential information in return for money
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fluid levels in the special bath that protected her betrayer from the dangers of hyperspace flight ebbed, then began plunging.
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_ I have not acquired that sort of good breeding, sir, which isn't founded on good sense; -- and when I call the betrayer of female innocence a bad character, the term, I think, is too true to be abusive.
John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts George Colman 1799
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Instinctively Lenoir divined that his betrayer was the young
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871
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(Jeanne the betrayer could be a soul sister to Jean Seberg in "Breathless.")
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(Jeanne the betrayer could be a soul sister to Jean Seberg in "Breathless.")
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People were told on a whim that their husband or wife was a "fallen one" or "betrayer" - if that person became inconvenient to mom's agenda.
Planet Atheism 2008
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No girl is left to languish and die forsaken by her betrayer, for the betrayer is a worthy young man who marries her as soon as he possibly can; no finger of scorn is pointed at the fallen one, for all the fingers in the street are attached to women who began life in precisely the same fashion; and as for that problematical Day of Judgment of which they hear so much on Sundays, perhaps they feel that that also may be one of the things which after all do not happen.
The Solitary Summer Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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a precaution against treachery, insisted upon the page going with them; and thus Estela became informed that her betrayer was a woman, and also learned the reason for her conduct.
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While you’re at it, ask the misfit, the prisoner, or even the naughty child to explain why Judas—already identified as the betrayer of Christ—was also given the bread and wine, the body and blood, the nourishment and the promise?
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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While you’re at it, ask the misfit, the prisoner, or even the naughty child to explain why Judas—already identified as the betrayer of Christ—was also given the bread and wine, the body and blood, the nourishment and the promise?
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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