traducingn.
/trəˈdjuːsɪŋ/, /trəˈdʒuːsɪŋ/, U.S. /trəˈd(j)usɪŋ/ The action of traduce v. (in various senses); an instance of this; esp. slander, defamation, calumny.
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1592 R. Cosin Conspiracie for Pretended Reformation 1 The..odious traducing of gouernors and gouernment Ecclesiasticall.
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon To Parl. sig. A2v The Canon Law..punishes the naming or traducing of any person in the Pulpit.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 39 How hard did we make it, by such uncharitable Traducings, to live evenly in the indivisible Point of Protestantism?
1706 S. Centlivre Love at Venture ii. 21 Don't you provoke me, by traducing of the Man I love.
1787 A. W. Costigan Sketches Society & Manners Portugal I. xiii. 249 Their usual work of defamation and traducing of characters.
1846 W. C. Bradley Let. 4 May in J. C. Lovejoy Mem. C. T. Torrey xv. 289 That love to God which makes him happy there, in spite of all their deridings and traducings.
1893 Jrnl. Compar. Med. & Vet. Arch. 14 116 I trust that this society..will show its dislike and feelings in the traducing of our profession.
1942 Spectator 4 Sept. 217/1 What is even more unwise..is the traducing of Mr. Gandhi's personal character and purposes.
1960 N.Y. Times 12 Sept. 28/5 A shameful traducing of a country and people for purely selfish ends.
2014 R. H. Weisberg In Praise of Intransigence i. 11 The Catholic Church's own present crisis can be sourced in part to the compromising, rather than the traducing, of some of its own dearest values.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
traducingadj.
/trəˈdjuːsɪŋ/, /trəˈdʒuːsɪŋ/, U.S. /trəˈd(j)usɪŋ/ That traduces someone or something; defamatory, slanderous.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [adjective]
horyc1000
missayingc1330
slandering1402
disclanderous1421
maligningc1425
defamatoryc1485
calumnious1490
defamative1502
slanderous?1521
infaming1535
obtractuous1537
defaminga1550
defamous1557
black-mouthed1560
sycophanticala1566
malignious1578
libelling1587
blasting1591
maledicent1599
traducing1601
black-throated1604
blasphemous1605
depraving1606
abusive1608
calumniating1609
obloquious1611
vilifying1611
infamatory1612
calumniatory1625
aspersionating1639
aspersive1642
scandalizing1646
reflexive1654
unworthying1654
reflecting1656
reflective1664
slanderful1669
aspersing1673
reflectious1715
traducent1736
obloquial1790
sycophantic1801
wronging1845
trash-talking1975
1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel i. 3 Pestered with an idle traducing tautologie.
1640 R. Hearne Ros Cœli 240 The frowne and nod of the traducing world.
1708 Seditious Insects 20 A vile traducing Priest.
1761 Monitor No. 330. ⁋9 Insinuations, whisperings, misrepresentations and traducing speeches.
1843 D. Mallory Life & Speeches H. Clay I. 149 The traducing ordeal of their enemies' malice.
1873 N.Y. Times 29 Dec. 8/5 (heading) John Bright and a traducing clergyman.
1904 Daily News 4 May 4/2 His picture of the young Alexander..is less coloured by traducing rumour.
2006 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Feb. 15/2 Cheery traducing bomblets of misrepresentation and falsity.
Derivatives
traˈducingly adv. now rare
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a1649 G. Abbott Brief Notes Psalms (1651) 150 His enemies and false friends so deceiving, and traducinglie judgeing him.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Traducingly, slanderously.
1897 Glasgow Herald 31 Dec. 6/5 In one or two instances traducingly by means of false attribution.
1907 Chambers's 20th Cent. Dict. (new ed.) at Traducing Traducingly. [Also in later dictionaries.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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