KJV Dictionary Definition: traitor

traitor

TRA'ITOR, n. L. traditor; trado, to deliver.

1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to its enemy, or any fort or place entrusted to his defense, or who surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; or one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.

2. One who betrays his trust.

traitorous

TRA'ITOROUS, a. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as a traitorous officer or subject.

1. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as a traitorous scheme or conspiracy.

traitorously

TRA'ITOROUSLY, adv. In violation of allegiance and trust; treacherously; perfidiously.

They had traitorously endeavored to subvert the fundamental laws.

traitorousness

TRA'ITOROUSNESS, n. Treachery; the quality of being treasonable.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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