Meanings
nountraditor (plural traditors or traditores)
plural traditors · plural traditores
- A deliverer; a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.
A number of bishops cooperated with him , piqued that they had not been called to the ordination of Cæcilian . Seventy bishops , a number of whom had been traditors , met thus together at Carthage , to depose Cæcilian.
1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ
Origin
- Latintrāditor“betrayer”
- Englishtraditor
From Latin trāditor (“betrayer”), from trādō (“to hand over”). Doublet of traitor.
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