Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A traitor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A traitor.
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- noun obsolete A
traitor .
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Examples
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Epi. ad Dorpium de Moria. si quispiam offendatur et sibi vindicet, non habet quod expostulet cum eo scripsit, ipse si volet, secum agat injuriam, utpote sui proditor, qui declaravit hoc ad se proprie pertinere.
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Hoc tantum perspexisse sufficiat, quod naturarum omnium proditor deus idem ad bonum dirigens cuncta disponat, dumque ea quae protulit in sui similitudinem retinere festinat, malum omne de reipublicae suae terminis per fatalis seriem necessitatis eliminet.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Therefore they do not, by the Law, truly come to know their sins, but either become hypocrites, swelling with an opinion of their own righteousness, as were olim erant Pharisaei, aut in peccatis suis desperant, quod Judas proditor ille fecit.
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* Ut Alexandri causa iis qui illam scire cupiunt patefiat; judicatus est Ephesi ab AEmilio Frontino proconsule, non propter professiones nomen, sed propter perpetrata latrocinia, cum jam esset praevaricator (et proditor.): [2754] 1
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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MciTenius, immerito proditor Vucatus a Demofthcue.
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* olim erant Pharisaei, aut in peccatis suis desperant, quod Judas proditor ille fecit.
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