traitorous

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Etymology

From Middle English trayterous, traytrous, (also Middle English traytours, treytours), from Anglo-Norman traiterous, traitourous and Old French traitros.

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traitorous (comparative more traitorous, superlative most traitorous)

  1. Characteristic of a traitor; disloyal.
    • c. 1587–1588, , Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
      I tel you true my hart is ſwolne with wrath,
      On this ſame theeuish villain Tamburlain.
      And of that false Coſroe, my traiterous brother,
      Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d?
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke:  (Second Quarto), London: I R for N L , published 1604, →OCLC, :
      I that inceſtuous, that adulterate beaſt, / With witchcraft of his wits, with trayterous gifts, / O wicked wit, and giftes that haue the power / So to ſeduce; wonne to his ſhamefull luſt / The will of my moſt ſeeming vertuous Queene;
  2. (law) Constituting treason; treasonable or seditious.

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