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▪ I. delator|dɪˈleɪtə(r)|
Also 6 delatour, 7 -later, -laiter; 6–7 di-.
[a. L. dēlātor informer, accuser, denouncer, agent-n. of dēferre (ppl. stem dēlāt-): see delate v.]
An informer, a secret or professional accuser.
a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. (1846) I. 81 Whosoevir wald delaite any of heresye, he was heard: no respect nor consideratioun had what mynd the delatour bayre to the persone delated. 1598Stow Surv. xliii. (1603) 472 In this Court he heard those that are delators or informers in popular and penal actions. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. ii. vii. 134 Hence it is that Delators, and Informers, have in all happy and well-governed States, been ever held an infamous and odious kind of Cattell. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xiv. 311 A formidable army of sycophants and delators. 1874Farrar Christ II. lx. 387 There might be secret delators in that very mob.
▪ II. delator, -our
obs. forms of dilator, a delay. |