traducer
traducer noun: one who traduces; one who maligns another by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
Noun
traducer (plural traducers)
- One who traduces; one who maligns another by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
- I greatly mistrust that the Bohemian on our shores is a much-abused man. To his traducer, who casts up anarchism against him, he replies that the last census (1880) shows his people to have the fewest criminals of all in proportion to numbers.1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 137
- In short, Mr. Price defended the country against its traducers, saying that, "so far from the Territory deserving the title of White Elephant, it was a credit to South Australia, and a valuable portion of her possessions."1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 240
Forms of traducer
| plural | traducers |
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Origin of traducer
From traduce + -er, from Latin trādūcō.
Questions about traducer
- What does traducer mean?
- Traducer means one who traduces; one who maligns another by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
- What part of speech is traducer?
- Traducer is a noun.
- What is the plural of traducer?
- The plural of traducer is traducers.
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