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

Fred R. Pfister Branson, Mo. Talking about the lives of other people direct�judgment away from the talebearer while he is enjoying personal participation.

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

Yet so it is: she may be a talebearer, a liar, and a thief; she may have a taste for brandy, and no heart.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis