intelligencer

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The former minister told Aluko she had already spoken about his "general behaviour, acquisition of assets, etc, asking you to be careful because intelligencer will start following you".

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Marlowe, we think, worked as a secret agent or "intelligencer" in the proto-secret service that Francis Walsingham set up for Elizabeth I, and in all likelihood conducted espionage abroad.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

Shakespeare speaks of Richard as "hell's black intelligencer," "that bottled spider, this poisonous bunch-back'd toad."

From Time Magazine Archive

And such, Sir, said I, in high resentment, are the uses you make of your corrupt intelligencer— My corrupt intelligencer, Madam! interrupted me, He is to this hour your brother's as well as mine.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel

He had bene a cheefe sticler in ye former faction among ye perticulers, and an intelligencer to those in England.

From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by Bradford, William