Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who conveys news or information.
- n. A secret agent, an informer, or a spy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which sends or conveys intelligence; one who or that which gives notice of private or distant transactions; a messenger or spy.
Wiktionary
- n. dated A bringer of intelligence (news, information); a spy or informant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.
Etymologies
- intelligence + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“With accents that damn us and every 'intelligencer' in the country knowing our exact descriptions.”
“Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire.”
“She had not been many days in the castle, ere, by the aid of a female attendant, who acted as an intelligencer, she had made herself mistress of all that was heard, said, or suspected concerning the peculiarities of the Baroness”
““Mulakkin” (intelligencer) is hired to prompt and instruct the dead.”
“For he will have me then reveal my intelligencer: and what may be the case between them?”
“Name me for your intelligencer, that you are in a bad house, and if you think you cannot now break with him, seem rather to believe that he may not know it to be so; and that I do not believe he does: and yet this belief in us both must appear to be very gross.”
“We have been alarmed with notions of a pursuit, founded upon a letter from his intelligencer.”
“This circumstance gives me to guess who this intelligencer is:”
“And yet, as my intelligencer acquaints me, her implacable relations are resolved to distress her all they can.”
“And such, Sir, said I, in high resentment, are the uses you make of your corrupt intelligencer —”
Lists
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Masthead Staples
Words from newspaper names/titles. Not the place names or titles of specific publications, just the reusable bits.
times, courier, advocate, news, telegraph, mirror, mail, bulletin, the, post, tribune, chronical and 108 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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The Wordie Times Courier Life Bulleti...
Newspaper names.
times, courier, globe, bugle, chronicle, gazette, herald, ledger, sentinel, tribune, digest, news and 46 more...
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bilby Newspaper - Edwardsville Intelligencer. Dec 4, 2007
minerva Also a spy:
He owns, 'that he has an intelligencer in our family; who has failed him for a day or two past: and not knowing how I do, or how I may be treated, his anxiety is the greater.'
Clarissa Harlowe quoting Lovelace, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Nov 28, 2007
seanahan Has anyone heard this word not in reference to a newspaper? Sep 11, 2007