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Definition of Betraying
1. betray [v] - See also: betray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Betraying
Literary usage of Betraying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... sharo our empire with us, abstain, na just mon, from now utterly betraying it.
And with contempt Ilir (Corinthian«, whom you have often conquered, ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... while they were betraying him. Careless and self-indulgent, he allowed dangers
to accumulate; but whenever it came to action he was firm and decisive. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"While reason may oppose these " passions of irrational animals," Pelagius,
betraying the influence of the Stoics, was far from failing to recognize the ..."