Word Meanings - TRAITORLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. "Traitorly rascals." Shak.

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• TRAITOR
  L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers
• TRAITORY
  Treachery. Chaucer.
• TREACHEROUS
  Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for
• TRAITORLY
  Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. "Traitorly rascals." Shak.
• TRAITOROUS
  1. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. Shak. 2. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme. -- Trai"tor*ous*ly, adv. -- Trai"tor*ous*ness,
• TRAITORESS
  A traitress. Rom. of R.
• ARCHTRAITOR
  A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.