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
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
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
And he became a talebearer among the peoples,770 now disparaging secretly,771 now speaking evil openly; drawing attention to Malachy's frivolity, shuddering at the novelty, exaggerating the expense.
From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Hugh Jackson Lawlor
To be no truce-breaker, nor talebearer nor backbiter.
From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by George Webbe Dasent
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