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Synonyms for traduce

Grammar : Verb
Spell : truh-doos, -dyoos
Phonetic Transcription : trəˈdus, -ˈdyus

Définition of traduce

Origin :
  • 1530s, "to alter, change over, transport," from Latin traducere "change over, convert," originally "lead along or across, transfer," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)). Sense of "defame, slander" (1580s) is from Latin traducere in the sense of "to scorn or disgrace," probably from the notion of "to lead along as a spectacle." Related: Traduced; traducing.
  • verb violate
Example sentences :
  • I often found it on my lips to say "Do not traduce me to her!"
  • Extract from : « Browning's England » by Helen Archibald Clarke
  • The very next day she will embrace, kiss, and traduce you, as if nothing had happened.
  • Extract from : « A Hungarian Nabob » by Maurus Jkai
  • It may be that our modern preachers know but little of that which they traduce.
  • Extract from : « Oxford » by Andrew Lang
  • You who call yourself my mother, how dare you traduce me so, you who bore me!
  • Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 » by Elbert Hubbard
  • And now he was trying to libel her, to traduce her to her father!
  • Extract from : « At His Gates, Vol. 1(of 3) » by Margaret Oliphant
  • For Grover Cleveland there were no longer enemies to traduce and vilify.
  • Extract from : « Under Four Administrations » by Oscar S. Straus
  • Master March may find it pleasant to traduce us, but sooner or later he'll repent.
  • Extract from : « The Deerslayer » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Let me not, like most of those who forsake their native country, traduce it.
  • Extract from : « The Absentee » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Who would imagine that such a glorious act of benevolence should ever be made a handle to traduce and vilify the author!
  • Extract from : « The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless » by Eliza Haywood
  • It is incredible the pains I have taken, and the absurd methods I employed, to traduce the character of women of distinction.
  • Extract from : « Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 » by Henry Fielding

Antonyms for traduce

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