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traditor

traditor noun: 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.

Noun

traditor (plural traditors or traditores)

  1. 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

traditor meaning in Tamil

traditor in Tamil

பணிவிணக்கவாணர்

Forms of traditor

pluraltraditors
pluraltraditores

Origin of traditor

From Latin trāditor (“betrayer”), from trādō (“to hand over”). Doublet of traitor.

Words formed from traditor

Questions about traditor

What does traditor mean?
Traditor means 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.
What is traditor in Tamil?
Traditor in Tamil is பணிவிணக்கவாணர். See Traditor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is traditor?
Traditor is a noun.
What is the plural of traditor?
The plural of traditor is traditors.

Words near traditor in the dictionary

  1. traditionizing
  2. traditionless
  3. traditionlessness
  4. traditions
  5. traditive
  6. traditor
  7. traditores
  8. traditors
  9. traditorship
  10. tradlarp
  11. tradlarped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: traditor (page history and authors); traditor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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