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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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
Figure after figure they live before us, till the procession culminates with the crowning horror of the blind delator, L. Valerius Catullus Messalinus.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
A delator, or professional informer, was an infamous character.
From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey
Although the word delator itself, for “common informer,” is confined to imperial times, the right of public accusation had long been in existence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Pliny tells us that Silius had risen by acting as a delator under Nero, who made him consul A.D.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
