Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant
One who gains advantage through flattery, false loyalty, or performative submission to authority. Historically, a sycophant was an informer who brought malicious accusations in Athenian courts for personal profit. In the context of trust governance, a sycophant is any agent — legal, political, or institutional — who feigns allegiance to the people while secretly serving the interests of the system that rewards their compliance. Sycophants are the foot soldiers of aggressive mimicry: they do not design the fraud, but they sustain it through obedience disguised as service.
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