traduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈdjuːs/
ipa: /tɹəˈdʒuːs/
ipa: /tɹəˈdus/
ipa: /tɹəˈdjus/
ipa: /tɹəˈdus/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: traduces
form: traducing
form: traduced
form: traduced
Etymology: From Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“I lead”). Compare cognate transduce, from Latin trānsdūcō.
Senses: examples: text: This heauy headed reueale eaſt and weſt / Makes vs traduſt, and taxed of other nations, / They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable—but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable.—We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each other—but the male-slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before He can traduce one.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i:
text: I am earnestly desirous then, my dear Sir, that you should let the world into the traits of your genuine character, as civil broils may otherwise tend to disguise or traduce it.
ref: 1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography [Part 2]”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 203:
text: “The chief men of the Jews became his enemies and traduced him to the principal persons in the town, hoping to make him ashamed or afraid.”
ref: 1881, The Gospel in All Lands, page 176:
text: Clayton interrupted him. “Stop!” he cried. “Stop! What manner of cur are you that you traduce the character of a good woman whom we believe dead! God! I was a fool ever to let you live—you are not fit to live even in this vile land.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 201:
text: Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
ref: 1935, W. & E. Muir, transl., The Trial, translation of Der Prozess by Franz Kafka:
text: Now, I hold no candle for the train operators, and I think that in the main they have been far too craven about any government proposals. But in this instance, they have been badly traduced, led up the hill, and then chucked back down it.
ref: 2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 47:
synonyms: word: defame
word: libel
word: slander
word: assassinate
word: asperse
word: backbite
word: badmouth
word: belibel
word: belittle
word: besmirch
word: blaze
word: blemish
word: blot
word: calumniate
word: calumny
word: cloud
word: cut down
word: defame
word: demonize
word: denigrate
word: derogate
word: detract
word: discredit
word: disgrace
word: disparage
word: diss
word: forgab
word: infamize
word: lampoon
word: libel
word: malign
word: monster
word: reproach
word: revile
word: scandal
word: shit-talk
word: slag
word: slander
word: spatter
word: speak ill of
word: stab
word: talk shit
word: talk shite
word: talk trash
word: torch
word: traduce
word: trash-talk
word: vilify
word: vilipend
word: vituperate
glosses: To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
examples: text: 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 […].
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter X, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: hand down
bequeath
leave
glosses: To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1865 Mar, “The Last of the Tercentenary”, in Temple Bar, volume XIII:
glosses: To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
Derived terms: traducement
traducer
traducing
traducingly
traduction
Related terms: transduce