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treason

violation or betrayal of the allegiance that a person owes his sovereign or his country, esp by attempting to overthrow the government; high treason
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Treason

See also Treachery.
Arnold, Benedict
(1741–1801) American Revolutionary general who plotted surrender of West Point to British. [Am. Hist.: Benét, 52]
Burgundy, Duke of
fights for English, then joins French. [Br. Lit.: I Henry VI]
Carne, Caryl
traitor to country. [Br. Lit.: Springhaven]
Christian, Colonel William
executed for treason. [Br. Lit.: Peveril of the Peak, Walsh Modern, 96]
Edmund
“a most toad-spotted traitor.” [Br. Lit.: King Lear]
Nolan, Philip
deserts the U.S. Army to join Burr’s conspiracy. [Am. Lit.: Hale The Man Without a Country in Magill I, 553]
Quisling, Vidkun
(1887–1945) Norwegian fascist leader; persuaded Hitler to attack Norway. [Nor. Hist.: Flexner, 444]
Vichy
seat of collaborationist government after German occupation (1941). [Fr. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1128]
Wallenstein, Count
powerful German general in Thirty Years’ War who corresponded with the Swedish enemy. [Ger. Drama: Schiller Wallenstein in Magill II, 1119]
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'After her Bacha Khan, Attaullah Mengal, Ghos Buksh Bizenjo, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, By Nazir Bhutto and now Altaf Hussain has also been inducted in traitors' list.' He added.
Yes, we have new breed of traitors in our land and they are no different from the traitors of Jesus Christ's time.
He called on people of Gezira State, who described them as producers , to go for work without giving care to traitors , agents and Keyboard' strugglers.
Cicero called out Catiline and his prominent co-conspirators for precisely what they were: traitors, subversives, infectious corrupters, a "plague"--worse even than murderers.
'Let the [would-be] commission decide who is traitor. Hang all those who have betrayed the country', stated Nawaz.
Alcoholism, drug addiction, stress and depression were described by the reporter as the "professional illnesses of a traitor" and also warned of heart attacks, strokes, car accidents and suicide.
RUSSIA's mouthpiece state-run TV broke their silence over the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter yesterday with a chilling threat to "traitors."
Adapted from John Le Carre's 2010 novel, Our Kind of Traitor is a serpentine thriller, which never turns up the heat sufficiently on McGregor and Harris' do-gooders, but still simmers pleasantly.
WATCH IT UNIVERSITY lecturer Perry (Ewan McGregor) and barrister girlfriend Gail (Naomie Harris) are on holiday in Marrakesh, hoping to salvage their relationship in Our Kind of Traitor (Channel 4, tomorrow, 10.15pm).
It is one thing that Ibrahim was giving a lecture in Tel Aviv, from angry prospective, but talking about normalization with Israel was what really infuriated the Arab public opinion against him -- Photo compiled by Egypt Today/Mohamed Zain CAIRO -- 4 January 2018: A group of students at Tel Aviv University heckled at Egyptian-American academic Saad Eddin Ibrahim for coming to speak there on Tuesday evening, calling him a "traitor" for perpetuating "normalization with Israel." Ibrahim was lecturing on how to preserve Israeli-Egyptian relations when the group of students suddenly interrupted him and hurled insults at him as they left.
The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Egyptian rights lawyer called President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a "traitor" over his government's controversial decision to cede sovereignty of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, Egypt's top benefactor, media reports said.
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