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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Traitors

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: No

Strongs Concordance:

 

Naves Topical Index
Traitor

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Traitor

TRA'ITOR, noun [Latin traditor; trado, to deliver.]

1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to its enemy, or any fort or place entrusted to his defense, or who surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; or one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. [See Treason.]

2. One who betrays his trust.


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Traitorly

TRA'ITORLY, adjective Treacherous. [Not in use.]


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Traitorous

TRA'ITOROUS, adjective Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as a traitorous officer or subject.

1. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as a traitorous scheme or conspiracy.


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Traitorously

TRA'ITOROUSLY, adverb In violation of allegiance and trust; treacherously; perfidiously.

They had traitorously endeavored to subvert the fundamental laws.


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Traitorousness

TRA'ITOROUSNESS, noun Treachery; the quality of being treasonable.