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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A betrayal.

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Examples

  • In my very, very, very well respected, thoughtful, scholarly, humble opinion, this is not patriotism, this is traitorism, and you should rename yourself “American Not Patriot.”

    Rove Hits Obama on Abortion Issue - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • A traitorism has grown and metastatized to such extent, that officials and their scholars show loyalty to the immigrant who increases the aggression on the net taxpayer.

    With Critics of Immigration Like This, Who Needs Advocates?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Olive-branch diplomacy risks accusations of pandering, weakness, and traitorism.

    Our Place in the World 2008

  • His comments will draw no hue and cry of traitorism from his peers in Bushworld.

    Think Progress » O’Reilly explains when it’s OK to support terrorism: 2005

  • Japanese internment camps were a reasonable, justifiable reaction to bona fide evidence of Japanese infiltration of America and of Japanese traitorism at a time when America was at war.

    "Tahini tracking." Ann Althouse 2007

  • As soon as he hears of the traitorism he cries (sonnet 33):

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • With “Hamlet” and his dreams of an impossible revenge Shakespeare got rid of some of the perilous stuff which his friend's traitorism had bred in him.

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • The exact contrary must, I think, be admitted; Othello was surely very quick to suspect Desdemona; he remembers Iago's first suspicious phrase, ponders it and asks its meaning; he is as quick as Posthumus was to believe the worst of Imogen, as quick as Richard II. to suspect his friends Bagot and Green of traitorism, and this proneness to suspicion is the soul of jealousy.

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • For this and other reasons I infer that Shakespeare took the fact from his own experience: he had suffered, it seems to me, from some such traitorism on the part of his mistress, or he ascribed to Mary Fitton some traitorism of his own.

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • For generally the man concentrates his hatred upon the woman who deceives him, and is only disdainful of his rival, whereas the woman for various reasons gives herself to hatred of her rival, and feels only angry contempt for her lover's traitorism.

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

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