Tattle vs Divulge - What's the difference?
tattle | divulge |
(pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.
To chatter.
* 1599 ,
* Dryden
A tattletale.
Gossip; idle talk.
To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.
* Divulge not such a love as mine. - .
To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
* God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven. -- .
As verbs the difference between tattle and divulge
is that tattle is (pejorative) to report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information while divulge is to make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.As a noun tattle
is a tattletale.tattle
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Verb
- BEATRICE. He were an excellent man that were made just in the mid-way between him and Benedick: the one is too like an image, and says nothing; and the other too like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling .
- the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative