delate
verb (used with object)
to inform against; denounce or accuse.
delator
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a word derived from
delate.
Example Sentences
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A delator, or professional informer, was an infamous character.
From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey
It is a melancholy proof of the degradation of that society that the delator could be proud of his craft and even envied and admired.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
The suppression of free political life, the absence of public interests, and the extinction of the trade of the delator, left young men with a passion for distinction few chances of gratifying it.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
"Half to the State and half to the delator, or accuser," answered that worthy, learned in the law of pillage.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow
Compared with this base espionage, even the trade of the delator becomes almost respectable.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
