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talebearer

[teyl-bair-er] / ˈteɪlˌbɛər ər /


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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

If any one threatened to tell, the two, sinking their private heat, would immediately band together against the talebearer.

From This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

On the other hand, I abhor a talebearer.

From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Pauline Lester




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