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Webster 1913 Edition
Traitorly
Trai′tor-ly
,Adj.
Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous.
[Obs.]
“Traitorly rascals.” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Traitorly
TRA'ITORLY
,Adj.
Definition 2025
traitorly
traitorly
English
Alternative forms
- traitourly (obsolete)
Adjective
traitorly (comparative more traitorly, superlative most traitorly)
- Like a traitor; traitorous.
Adverb
traitorly (comparative more traitorly, superlative most traitorly)
- (obsolete) Traitorously.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter ix, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- But wete ye wel whan ye are past this lodgynge / I shalle hurte you and I may / for ye slewe my fader traitourly / But fyrst for the loue of my lord sir Tor / and for the loue of sir Lamorak the honourable Knyght that here is lodged ye shal haue none ylle lodgynge / For hit is pyte that euer ye shold be in the company of good Knyghtes
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter ix, in Le Morte Darthur, book X: