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traducent

traducent adjective: slanderous.

Adjective

traducent (comparative more traducent, superlative most traducent)

  1. (obsolete, rare) slanderous
    • […] who sees the cause of nation's pride unvindicated through life by our unconfuted veracity and coherent perseverance in the cause of truth, despite the truculent fluctuations of the minds of traducent mortals, whose deadly attractions yield to the wreck which divests the soul […]1850, Thomas O'Donoghue, The Book of Truth, in Honour of Love and the Apostles of Life
    • Froude, even the traducent and deprecatory Froude, declared that he left the world "having never spoken, never written a sentence which he did not believe with his whole heart, never stained his conscience by a single deliberate act which he could regret to remember."1903, “Introduction”, in Alexander Carlyle, editor, New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, volume 1

Examples of traducent in a sentence

  • Such language may be classified also as traducent under section 368 of the Penal Code.1921 April 15, “Appeal from the District Court of Ponce in a Prosecution for Breach of Peace”, in Porto Rico Reports: Cases Adjudged in the...
  • He is an intellectual— if one may use that term today without connoting anything of a disparaging or traducent significance.1950, Leslie Ford, Murder is the Pay-Off, page 5:
  • Jacob published in the Louisville ... whose epithets' target was Breckinridge, though President Lincoln was the ostensible object of the traducent attack.1971, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, page 383:

Forms of traducent

comparativemore traducent
superlativemost traducent

Origin of traducent

From Latin traducens, present participle of traducere. See traduce.

Questions about traducent

What does traducent mean?
Traducent means slanderous.
How do you use traducent in a sentence?
Such language may be classified also as traducent under section 368 of the Penal Code.
What part of speech is traducent?
Traducent is an adjective.

Words near traducent in the dictionary

  1. tradthots
  2. traduce
  3. traduced
  4. traducement
  5. traducements
  6. traducent
  7. traducer
  8. traducers
  9. traduces
  10. traducian
  11. traducianism

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