Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Treacherous; perfidious; traitorous.
- Apt to disclose or make known.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete Treacherous, traitorous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Treacherous; perfidious; traitorous.
- adj. obsolete Apt to make unexpected revelations.
Etymologies
- From late Latin proditorius + -ous. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“-- The eye, then, Sir Thomas, is proditorious, and I will not gainsay its honest testimony: yet would I rather endeavour to profit by the reprehension than seek to show that it was uncalled for.”
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
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