Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who conveys news or information.
- noun A secret agent, an informer, or a spy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which sends or conveys intelligence; one who or that which gives notice of private or distant transactions; a messenger or spy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A bringer of
intelligence (news, information); aspy orinformant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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With accents that damn us and every 'intelligencer' in the country knowing our exact descriptions.
Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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With accents that damn us and every 'intelligencer' in the country knowing our exact descriptions.
Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire.
Martyr-Rory Clements « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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She had not been many days in the castle, ere, by the aid of a female attendant, who acted as an intelligencer, she had made herself mistress of all that was heard, said, or suspected concerning the peculiarities of the Baroness
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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“Mulakkin” (intelligencer) is hired to prompt and instruct the dead.
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We have been alarmed with notions of a pursuit, founded upon a letter from his intelligencer.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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This circumstance gives me to guess who this intelligencer is:
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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And yet, as my intelligencer acquaints me, her implacable relations are resolved to distress her all they can.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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For he will have me then reveal my intelligencer: and what may be the case between them?
Pamela 2006
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Name me for your intelligencer, that you are in a bad house, and if you think you cannot now break with him, seem rather to believe that he may not know it to be so; and that I do not believe he does: and yet this belief in us both must appear to be very gross.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
seanahan commented on the word intelligencer
Has anyone heard this word not in reference to a newspaper?
September 11, 2007
minerva commented on the word intelligencer
Also a spy:
He owns, 'that he has an intelligencer in our family; who has failed him for a day or two past: and not knowing how I do, or how I may be treated, his anxiety is the greater.'
Clarissa Harlowe quoting Lovelace, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
November 28, 2007
bilby commented on the word intelligencer
Newspaper - Edwardsville Intelligencer.
December 4, 2007
ry commented on the word intelligencer
I was thinking about verbing and newspapers (bilby's citation below, as well as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Could intelligence be a verb?
September 3, 2013
bilby commented on the word intelligencer
Let's hope not.
September 4, 2013