Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of traducing; misrepresentation; defamation; calumny; obloquy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny.
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- noun The act of
traducing ;slander ,calumny .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
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Examples
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They have chosen the "realist" assignation, one might suppose, because "the illusionist school" or "the traducement school" of foreign policy wouldn't sell very well to the polities they seek to target.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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No traducement was forwarded, to the contrary, those are biographical facts which you prefer to obfuscate and deflect rather than confront more honestly.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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But how unjust this traducement is (if you will reduce things from popularity of opinion to measure of reason) may appear in that we see men are more curious what they put into a new vessel than into a vessel seasoned; and what mould they lay about a young plant than about a plant corroborate; so as this weakest terms and times of all things use to have the best applications and helps.
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Thus have I gone over these three diseases of learning; besides the which there are some other rather peccant humours than formed diseases, which, nevertheless, are not so secret and intrinsic, but that they fall under a popular observation and traducement, and, therefore, are not to be passed over.
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Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, 28
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Thus have I gone over these three diseases of learning; besides the which there are some other rather peccant humours than formed diseases, which, nevertheless, are not so secret and intrinsic, but that they fall under a popular observation and traducement, and, therefore, are not to be passed over.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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But how unjust this traducement is (if you will reduce things from popularity of opinion to measure of reason) may appear in that we see men are more curious what they put into a new vessel than into a vessel seasoned; and what mould they lay about a young plant than about a plant corroborate; so as this weakest terms and times of all things use to have the best applications and helps.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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Examples abound, but the case du jour is Thom Hartmann's traducement of laissez-faire's "intellectual roots" in the Huffington Post:
Mises Dailies 2009
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That is the response of dignity and sovereignty that this cowardly act of traducement calls for.
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There's nothing new about such traducement; along with allurement, inducement, fraud and coercion, it has been one of the mainstays of evangelism.
Shadow Warrior 2008
bilby commented on the word traducement
"COMINIUS: You shall not be
The grave of your deserving; 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: therefore, I beseech you,--
In sign of what you are, not to reward
What you have done,--before our army hear me."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 28, 2009