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definition

Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished

definition

Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country.

definition

Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust.

synonyms

• betrayer
• fink

definition

To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.

You can tell me who the traitors are.

He counted a total of seven missing, including the three known traitors.

I'm claiming my rightful place as the Black God, and I'll do it without traitors like you and Jenn at my side.

Xander went through a familiar routine, one he used on traitors.

On the Loth Tyler seized Canterbury, sacked the palace of Archbishop Sudbury, the chancellor, and beheaded three citizens as "traitors."

These men he denounced as traitors; but a band of youthful enthusiasts encouraged their leader in his revolutionary course.

However, he received the news of the massacre of St Bartholomew (23rd of August 1572) with joy, and publicly celebrated the event, having been led to believe, according to his apologists, that France had been miraculously delivered, and that the Huguenots had suffered justly as traitors.

He demanded the formation of a revolutionary army, and preached the extermination of all traitors.

He was burnt simply because he could not change his religion with the law and would not pretend that he could; and his execution is a complete refutation of the idea that Mary only persecuted heretics because and when they were traitors.

He had generally no difficulty in gathering a following, and those who embraced his service were held bound to accompany him to the end, any who drew back being regarded as traitors.

The secret of the raid was sold by the brother of Angus, Sir George Douglas, and by other traitors.

Henry II., who disliked him, called him the "son of two traitors."

The official account (untrustworthy in details) is the True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceedings against the late most Barbarous Traitors (1606), reprinted by Bishop Barlow of Lincoln as The Gunpowder Treason (1679).

The story may be an attempt to account for the Tarpeian rock being chosen as the place of execution of traitors.

But it must not be forgotten that there was also a tinge of purely political discontent about the rising; the insurgents everywhere proclaimed their intention to destroy traitors, of whom the most generally condemned were the chancellor, Archbishop Sudbury, and the treasurer, Sir Robert Hailes, the two persons most responsible For the levy of the poll-tax.

They announced their intention of executing all traitors, seizing the person of the king, and setting Up a new government for the realm.

He saw past-Death handle traitors but never expected he'd have one in his midst, a few months on the job.

It was the Yirkins' first venture into their system, and they'd chosen Anshan, aided by traitors within his father's government who were wooed with the promise of ruling their own planet.

Collaborators were judged to be traitors to France rather than French fascists.

To some, these men were traitors, to others they became heroes.

Traitors and spies had to be endlessly unmasked and fed to the never satiated gulag.

The grateful traitors of these groups then took the lead in dissolving the embryonic soviets, the Anti-Fascist Militia Committees.

The government, however, did not venture to carry out the grim sentence which the law still applied to traitors, and introduced an act enabling it to commute the death penalty to transportation.

All who rejected his ideal were corrupt; all who resented his ascendancy were traitors.

On the 8th Thermidor (26th of July) Robespierre addressed the Convention, deploring the invectives against himself and the Revolutionary Tribunal and demanding the purification of the committees and the punishment of traitors.

De mades moved the decree of the Assembly by which Demosthenes, Hypereides, and some others were condemned to death as traitors.

Pietro Della Vigna, accused of treasonable designs, was disgraced; and the once all-powerful favourite and minister, blinded now and in rags, was dragged in the emperor's train, as a warning to traitors, till in despair he dashed out his brains.

I would agree not to slaughter your Guardians and declare a ceasefire for thirty days, if you will agree to help me root out the traitors in my own organization.

One of my experienced Guardians will join you and help you root out the traitors.

His thoughts returned to the Watcher, and he wondered just how many of his problems were caused by traitors influenced somehow by the beings coaching Czerno.

The plan to identify traitors made sense, as ugly as it was.

We found an Oracle, executed some traitors, chased down bad guys, hosted the Quarterly, and are evac-ing soon.

All obediently requested quick deaths, and he granted them, tossing their souls into the lake instead of crushing them to send them to Hell, which was the usual fate for the souls of traitors.

Eventually, he'd reveal the fate that awaited traitors and order her to fight him.

Introduce traitors into his country, that the government policy may be rendered futile.

Within its shade we'll live and die, Tho cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.

Traitor's gate is a river entrance, where the heads of traitor's gate is a river entrance, where the heads of traitors were put on spikes.

It looked a bit like the tower of london, so we discussed traitors and elizabeth the first in a low key way.

Four national traitors were killed during special target operations, said the Chechen Command spokesman.

The other traitors, who were relieved to have escaped detection, also were thus motivated to fight harder.

The Italian socialist Party however repudiated these social traitors.

The puppets allege that there have been no victims among invaders and local traitors in the blast.

And thus they are traitors enough to betray even their own treachery.

War without pity or mercy; that the traitors may know that they must not trifle with the sentiment of a people.

He formed a league with the primate Prazmowski and other traitors to dethrone the king; when (1670) the plot was discovered and participation in it repudiated by Louis XIV., the traitors sought the help of the elector of Brandenburg against their own justly indignant countrymen.

Two years later the same traitors again conspired against the king, at the very time when the Turks had defeated Sobieski's unsupported lieutenant, Luzecki, at Czertwertyworska and captured the fortress of Kamieniec (KamenetzPodolskiy), the key of south-eastern Poland, while Lemberg was only saved by the valour of Elias Lancki.

It speaks well for the patriotic devotion and discipline of her commons that Athens, weakened by plague and military disasters, should have withstood for so long the blows of her numerous enemies from without, and the damage inflicted by traitors within her walls (see Antiphon, Theramenes).

This mission, on one side, carried on an active propaganda against Elizabeth in favour of Spain; and on the other, among the true missionaries, was marked with devoted zeal and heroism even to the ghastly death of traitors.

As in the case of the casket letters, it is alleged that forgery was employed to interpolate sufficient evidence of Mary's complicity in a design of which it is thought credible that she was kept in ignorance by the traitors and murderers who had enrolled themselves in her service, - that one who pensioned the actual murderer of Murray and a would-be murderer of Elizabeth was incapable of approving what her keen and practised intelligence was too blunt and torpid to anticipate as inevitable and inseparable from the general design.

Llewelyn's brother, now David III., designated by the English " the last survivor of that race of traitors," for a few months defied the English forces amongst the fastnesses of Snowdon, but ere long he was captured, tried as a disloyal English baron by a parliament at Shrewsbury, and finally executed under circumstances of great barbarity on the 3rd of October 1283.