traducementn.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xl. 544 Innocent Christians, after their slaunderous and false traducements, carried to their deathes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. x. 22 'Twere a Concealement worse then a Theft, No lesse then a Traducement, To hide your doings. View more context for this quotation

1648 Mercurius Elencticus No. 8. 60 Well may the Inns of Court submitt, when the King must be Subjected and Enslaved to the Check and Traducement of such an Arse-worme as Hammond.

1744 H. Layng in tr. G. B. Gelli Circe Pref. p. viii It may be expected..that I should say something of a certain Paraphrase, Traducement, Carricattura, or what you please, of this Book.

1757 E. Kimber Juvenile Adventures David Ranger (ed. 2) I. ii. 32 I think it prudence to avoid..the traducements of malice.

1839 John Bull 19 May 236/1 Lady Flora Hastings..would have been unjustly immolated..by atrocious traducements there propagated.

1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 140 For 'gainst the stranger calumny Flows deftly from the tongue, and sweet traducement Costs not a thought.

1919 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 567 Any form of personal despotism..is always peculiarly exposed to misrepresentation and traducement at the hands of unscrupulous adversaries.

1977 Harper's Mag. Jan. 87/3 A traducement of the very qualities Pei purports to admire.

2003 A. Sparks Beyond Miracle i. 9 Six gruelling months of public traducement during which it became clear that this was part of an orchestrated campaign to squeeze her out of her job.