betrayingbetraying means that betrays.EtymologyFrom Middle English betraying, bytrayenge, betraȝyng, equivalent to betray + -ing.adjThat betraysnounbetrayal“Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]”