traducer

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English

Etymology

From traduce +‎ -er, from Latin trādūcō.

Noun

traducer (plural traducers)

  1. One who traduces; one who maligns another by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
    • 1890, Jacob A 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:
      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.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 240:
      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."

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