释义 |
diˈvulger [f. as prec. + -er1.] One who divulges: †a. a publisher (obs.); b. a discloser.
1606Proceed. agst. Garnet, etc. M iv b (T.), The first devisers, and divulgers of this scandalous report. c1611Chapman Iliad xix. Comment., Our Commentators..will by no means allow the word κάπρος here for Homer's, but an unskilfulness in the divulger. 1749Fielding Tom Jones iii. ix, Like other hasty divulgers of news, he only brought on himself the trouble of contradicting it. 1782V. Knox Ess. vi. (R.), Those secrets, which..the confidence of a friend has made known to the treacherous divulger of them. |