Definition of "intelligencer" [in•tel•li•gen•cer]

• One who conveys news or information. (noun)
• A secret agent, an informer, or a spy. (noun)

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• "With accents that damn us and every 'intelligencer' in the country knowing our exact descriptions."
• "Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire."
• "She had not been many days in the castle, ere, by the aid of a female attendant, who acted as an intelligencer, she had made herself mistress of all that was heard, said, or suspected concerning the peculiarities of the Baroness"