archtraitor

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English

Etymology

arch- +‎ traitor

Noun

archtraitor (plural archtraitors)

  1. A chief or transcendent traitor.
    • 1589, James Lea, The Birth, Purpose, and Mortall Wound of the Romish Holie League‎, London: Thomas Cadman:
      […] that caitiffe Cardinall, and English Arch-traitor, from his Cannon of corrupt conceipt dischargeth two seditious Libels against his Souereign:
    • 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 led Satan the Arch-Traitor bound at his Chariot Wheels
    • 1875, Christina Rossetti, “Who Shall Deliver Me?”, in The Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems‎, London: Macmillan, page 264:
      Myself, arch-traitor to myself;
      My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe,
      My clog whatever road I go.
    • 1973, Robert C. Alberts, The Good Provider: H. J. Heinz and his 57 Varieties‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Preface, p. x:
      In the furious battle over the 1906 Pure Food Law, he was a hero to reformers and, to many of his fellow food processors, an archtraitor.

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