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
The talebearer was taken aback, stammered out a qualification, or begged that no notice might be taken of the statement.
From Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments by Dwight Lyman Moody
Hast not thou Held counsel—played the talebearer whose tales Bear plague abroad and poison, knowing not how - Not with my wife nor brother?
From Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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