Word Meanings - BETRAYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who, or that which, betrays.
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- DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. - 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. - APOSTATE
One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a - TURNCOAT
One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan. - HERETICATE
To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical. Bp. Hall. And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me. Fitzed. Hall. - VAGABONDAGE
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy. - HERETIC
One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church." Addis & Arnold. Syn. -- Heretic, Schismatic, - VAGABONDISM
Vagabondage. - TRAITORLY
Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. "Traitorly rascals." Shak. - VAGABONDIZE
To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness. - RENEGADE
One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay. One who deserts from a military - 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. - HERETICALLY
In an heretical manner. - VAGABONDRY
Vagabondage. - BACKSLIDER
One who backslides. - RECREANT
to forsake, leave, tire, discourage, regard as conquered, LL. recredere se to declare one's self conquered in combat; hence, those are called recrediti or recreanti who are considered infamous; L. pref. re- again, back + credere to believe, to - BETRAYER
One who, or that which, betrays. - VAGABOND
1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak. 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond - ARCHTRAITOR
A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.