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.
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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.
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Fred R. Pfister Branson, Mo. Talking about the lives of other people direct�judgment away from the talebearer while he is enjoying personal participation.
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If any one threatened to tell, the two, sinking their private heat, would immediately band together against the talebearer.
From This Freedom by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
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