traducement

traducement
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 vouchd, / Would seem but modest...


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  • Traducement — Tra*duce ment, n. The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill founded censure; defamation; calumny. [R.] Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • traducement — index aspersion, bad repute, defamation, denunciation, dishonor (shame), obloquy, revilement, slander …   Law dictionary

  • traducement — noun see traduce …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • traducement — See traduce. * * * …   Universalium

  • traducement — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The expression of injurious, malicious statements about someone: aspersion, calumniation, calumny, character assassination, defamation, denigration, detraction, scandal, slander, vilification. Law: libel. See ATTACK,… …   English dictionary for students

  • traducement — n. slander, libel …   English contemporary dictionary

  • traducement — tra·duce·ment …   English syllables

  • traducement — noun a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone s words or actions • Syn: ↑defamation, ↑calumny, ↑calumniation, ↑obloquy, ↑hatchet job • Derivationally related forms: ↑traduce, ↑calumnious …   Useful english dictionary

  • traduce — traducement, n. traducer, n. traducingly, adv. /treuh doohs , dyoohs /, v.t., traduced, traducing. to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone s character. [1525 35; < L traducere, var. of transducere to transfer,… …   Universalium

  • detraction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Disparagement Nouns 1. detraction, derogation, disparagement, dispraise, depreciation, disvaluation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, evil …   English dictionary for students

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