Crossword-Solution: DELATOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Delator | n. | An accuser; an informer. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DELATOR | anagram | LEOTARD |
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| Informer | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DELATOR (5)
Trembling for their lives from the suddenness of the summons, and from the unseasonable hour, and scarcely doubting that by some anonymous _delator_ they have been implicated as parties to a conspiracy, they hurry to the palace--are received in portentous silence by the ushers and pages in attendance--are conducted to a saloon, where (as in every where else) the silence of night prevails, united with the silence of fear and whispering expectation.
Who should presume to tear away the mask which prudence or timidity had taken up? A _delator_, or professional informer, was an infamous character.
When the blind _delator_, Catullus Messalinus, is summoned to give his advice concerning the gigantic turbot: nemo magis rhombum stupuit; nam plurima dixit in laevom conversus, at illi dextra iacebat belua.
The delator would appear to have been a Jeromite, Fray Joan de Santa Cruz, who took objection to some sixteen propositions which, as he alleged, were put forward by Luis de Leon.[223] Some exaggeration on the part of Santa Cruz is conceivable.
The heads of this accusation, extracted from the first report and from two subsequent additions made by the delator, amount to these.