traditor

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Definition of traditor

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A deliverer; a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.
    “A number of bishops cooperated with him , piqued that they had not been called to the ordination of Cæcilian . Seventy bishops , a number of whom had been traditors , met thus together at Carthage , to depose Cæcilian.”

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Etymology

From Latin trāditor (“betrayer”), from trādō (“to hand over”). Doublet of traitor.

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