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 spoiled child, the censorious talebearer, the callow, conceited youth must be wrought upon by the beat and play of human life.
From Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day by Charles Reynolds Brown
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
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