Motif
Betrayed secret dissolving friendship
betrayed_secret_dissolving_friendship
A motif of the Betrayal and Violated Trust family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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biblical
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus / THE HOLY BIBLE / ECCLESIASTICUS / THE PROLOGUE; lines 2791-2955 confidence: high
Disclosing a friend's secret loses credit and friendship; the lost friend is compared to a bird let out of the hand and a roe escaped from a snare.
Disclosing a friend's secret is compared to losing a bird from the hand and an escaped roe, and is said to leave no hope for reconciliation.
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