archtraitor

plural archtraitors

1. A chief or transcendent traitor.

   1754, Isaac Watts, Remnants of Time, Employed in Prose and Verse, in The Posthumous Works of the Late Reverend Dr. Isaac Watts, London: T. and T. Longman et al., p. 276, He [Jesus] led Satan the Arch-Traitor bound at his Chariot Wheels […]

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   […] that caitiffe Cardinall, and English Arch-traitor, from his Cannon of corrupt conceipt dischargeth two seditious Libels against his Souereign:

   1589, James Lea, The Birth, Purpose, and Mortall Wound of the Romish Holie League, London: Thomas Cadman

   Myself, arch-traitor to myself; My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe, My clog whatever road I go.

   1875, Christina Rossetti, “Who Shall Deliver Me?”, in The Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 264

   In the furious battle over the 1906 Pure Food Law, he [Henry J. Heinz] was a hero to reformers and, to many of his fellow food processors, an archtraitor.

   1973, Robert C. Alberts, The Good Provider: H. J. Heinz and his 57 Varieties, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Preface, p. x