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Traduce   Listen
verb
Traduce  v. t.  (past & past part. traduced; pres. part. traducing)  
1.
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. (Obs.)
2.
To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. (Obs.)
3.
To increase or distribute by propagation. (Obs.) "From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth."
4.
To draw away; to seduce. (Obs.) "I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers."
5.
To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. (Obs.)
6.
To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame. "The best stratagem that Satan hath... is by traducing the form and manner of them (prayers), to bring them into contempt." "He had the baseness... to traduce me in libel."
Synonyms: To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander.






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"Traduce" Quotes from Famous Books



... versed in my affairs, to Bengal, to impress those gentlemen with a full sense of my situation, yet I find myself obliged to lay it aside, from the insinuations of the calumniating tongue of Lord Macartney, that takes every license to traduce every action of my life and that of my son. I am informed that Lord Macartney, at this late moment, intends to write a letter: I am ignorant of the subject, but fully perceive, that, by delaying to send it till the very eve of the dispatch, ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke



Words linked to "Traduce" :   denigrate, traducement, slander, badmouth, malign, drag through the mud, sully, traducer, smear, besmirch, defame, calumniate, smirch, asperse



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