traducement

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The act of traducing; slander, calumny

Rome must know / The value of her own: 'twere a concealment / Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, / To hide your doings; and to silence that, / Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd, / Would seem but modest.

{n} false censure, slander, scandal
The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny
{i} slander, libel
traduce
To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit

However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son .

traduce
To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate

From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.

traduce
{v} to censure, defame, misrepresent
traduce
To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of
traduce
To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame
traduce
To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements
traduce
If someone has been traduced, unpleasant and untrue things have deliberately been said about them. We have been traduced in the press as xenophobic bigots. to deliberately say things that are untrue or unpleasant (traducere , from trans- ( TRANS-) + ducere )
traduce
speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere"
traduce
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants
traduce
To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works
traduce
To increase or distribute by propagation
traduce
To draw away; to seduce
traduce
{f} defame, slander
traducement

    Hyphenation

    tra·duce·ment

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    [ tr&-'düs, -'dyüs ] (transitive verb.) 1592. Latin traducere to lead across, transfer, degrade, from tra-, trans- trans- + ducere to lead; more at TOW.
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