What does traduce mean?

Definitions for traduce
trəˈdus, -ˈdyustra·duce

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mudverb

    speak unfavorably about

    "She badmouths her husband everywhere"

Wiktionary

  1. traduceverb

    To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

  2. traduceverb

    To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.

  3. traduceverb

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

  4. Etymology: From traduco, from trans + duco.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Traduceverb

    Etymology: traduco, Lat. traduire, Fr.

    The best stratagem that Satan hath, who knoweth his kingdom to be no one way more shaken than by the publick devout prayers of God’s church, is by traducing the form and manner of them, to bring them into contempt, and so slack the force of all mens devotion towards them. Richard Hooker, b. v.

    Those particular ceremonies which they pretend to be so scandalous, we shall more thoroughly sift, when other things also traduced in the publick duties of the church are, together with these, to be touched. Richard Hooker, b. iv.

    Whilst calumny has such potent abetters, we are not to wonder at its growth: as long as men are malicious and designing they will be traducing. Gov. of the Tongue.

    From that preface he took his hint; though he had the baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor, but instead of it to traduce me in libel. John Dryden, Fab.

    None are so gross as to contend for this,
    That souls from bodies may traduced be;
    Between whose natures no proportion is,
    When root and branch in nature still agree. Davies.

    From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth. Matthew Hale.

    Some believe the soul is made by God, some by angels, and some by the generant: whether it be immediately created or traduced hath been the great ball of contention to the latter ages. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.

ChatGPT

  1. traduce

    To traduce is to speak badly of, slander, or falsely criticize someone or something. It can also mean to malign or attack someone's reputation through misrepresentation or spreading rumors.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Traduceverb

    to transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants

  2. Traduceverb

    to translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works

  3. Traduceverb

    to increase or distribute by propagation

  4. Traduceverb

    to draw away; to seduce

  5. Traduceverb

    to represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of

  6. Traduceverb

    to expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Traduce

    tra-dūs′, v.t. to calumniate: to defame.—ns. Traduce′ment, the act of traducing: (Shak.) misrepresentation, calumny; Tradū′cer.—adj. Tradū′cible.—adv. Tradū′cingly. [L. traducĕre, to lead along—trans, across, ducĕre, to lead.]

Anagrams for traduce »

  1. curated

  2. Decatur

  3. educrat

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of traduce in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of traduce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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