| Pronunciation: | | 'treyturus
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| Matching Terms: | | traitorously, traitorousness
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- [adj] deliberately and abominably disloyal or likely to betray trust or confidence; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist"
- [adj] constituting treason; "a traitorous act"; "treasonable acts like sabotage"
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| | Synonyms: | | disloyal, faithless, treasonable, treasonous, unfaithful |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Trai"tor*ous\, a. [Cf. F. tra[^i]treux.]
1. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as,
a traitorous officer or subject. --Shak.
2. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying
breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme. --
{Trai"tor*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Trai"tor*ous*ness}, n.
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