Word Meanings - WHISPERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who whispers. 2. A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly. Prov. xvi.

Related words: (words related to WHISPERER)

• INTELLIGENCER
  One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.
• CONVEYER
  1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. 2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. Shak.
• BACKBITER
  One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• TATTLER
  Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus. Note: The common American species are the greater tattler, or telltale , the smaller tattler, or lesser yellowlegs , the solitary tattler , and
• SECRETLY
  In a secret manner.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• INTELLIGENCE
  1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser. 3. Information
• HENCEFORTH
  From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
• TATTLERY
  Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• WHENCEEVER
  Whencesoever.
• MISINTELLIGENCE
  1. Wrong information; misinformation. 2. Disagreement; misunderstanding.
• SITHENCE; SITHENS
  Since. See Sith, and Sithen. Piers Plowman.
• THENCEFORWARD
  From that time onward; thenceforth.
• WHENCE
  genitive ending; -- see -wards), also whenne, whanene, AS. hwanan, hwanon, hwonan, hwanone; akin to D. when. See When, and cf. Hence, 1. From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how;
• UNINTELLIGENCE
  Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall.