adherent vs traitor

adherent

noun
  • A person who has membership in some group, association or religion. 

adj
  • Adhesive, sticking to something. 

  • Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something. 

  • Attaching or pressing against a different organ. 

traitor

noun
  • One who betrays any confidence or trust. 

  • Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to their defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished. 

  • Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering their country. 

verb
  • To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive. 

adj
  • Traitorous. 

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