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traitorous, a.|ˈtreɪtərəs|
Forms: 4 treterous, -tourous, 4–5 traytrous, 5–6 -torouse, 5–7 traitrous, 6 traytorous, -tourous(e, traterous, -turuse, traytorys, tretrous, 6–9 trayter-, traiterous, 6– traitorous.
[app. ad. OF. traitreus, -eux (c 1243 in Godef.), alteration of earlier traitos, -eus, trahiteus, conformed to traitre, traitor. In Eng. having the appearance of being f. traitor + -ous.]
Having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; treacherous; perfidious.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 5652 France had þo be delyured weel of a ful traytrous man. c1477Caxton Jason 10 They that..gyue them vnto these traytrous meuinges may in no manere haue rest daye ne nyght. 1535Coverdale Isa. lix. 12 Vsinge presumptuous & traytorous ymaginacions. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 338 Aduoyde ye false trayterous and vngracious people. 1581Hamilton in Cath. Tractates (S.T.S.) 84 Maist traturuse tratures aganis thair soueran the Queinis maiestie. 1683Brit. Spec. 170 A traitorous Crew of villanous Phanaticks. 1716Addison Freeholder No. 31 ⁋10 More of His Friends have lost their Lives in this Rebellion, than of His traiterous Subjects. 1812G. Chalmers Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit. 429 A spirit of disaffection..followed..by popular disturbances, and traiterous insurrection, affected her quiet, and interrupted her industry. 1871R. Ellis Catullus v. 12 So we shall not know, nor traitorous eye shall envy. |