talebearer
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“A talebearer revealeth secrets,” says Proverbs in an early complaint, “but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2019
Unpredictably clever, obscurely erudite, obstinately elusive about answering his own questions, Sloan could be the Comrade V. of novelists: the talebearer as dehumanized intellect.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its talebearer is gaunt, ghost-grey Dr. Hereward Carrington, director of the American Psychical Institute, an oldtime spook-hunter who likes to spend his vacations in haunted houses.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had hoped for a hearty outburst of wrath and the assurance of wide-spreading animosity, yet no such thing happened, and the talebearer presently departed in some surprise.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
"Where there is no wood the fire goes out; So where there is no talebearer contention ceases."
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
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