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Informer vs Delation - What's the difference?

informer | delation |

As nouns the difference between informer and delation

is that informer is one who informs someone else about something while delation is informing, tattling.

informer

English

Alternative forms

* informor (qualifier) * informour (qualifier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who informs someone else about something.
  • A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
  • One who informs, animates, or inspires.
    • (Thomson)
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Nature, informer of the poet's art.

    Synonyms

    * informant * See also

    See also

    * name names

    Anagrams

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    delation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Conveyance.
  • (legal) An accusation or charge brought against someone, especially by an informer.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1858, author=John Addington Symonds, title=Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Some curious circumstances respecting delation , prison life, and autos da fe are here minutely recorded.]}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1789, author=Edward Gibbon, title=The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Such public defiance might become Valentinian; but it could leave no room for the unworthy delation of the philosopher Maximus, which supposes some more private offence, (Zosimus, l. iv. p. 200, 201.)]}}
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 253:
  • *:A wise woman who was popular with her neighbours might escape delation ; whereas one who had fallen out with them might find herself accused not just of charming, but even of black witchcraft.