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
I don’t wish to be a talebearer, but another of your adoring proteges is in dire trouble.
From Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch by Evelyn Raymond
"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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