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Calumny vs Traducement - What's the difference?

calumny | traducement |

As nouns the difference between calumny and traducement

is that calumny is a falsification or misrepresentation intended to disparage or discredit another while traducement is the act of traducing; slander, calumny.

calumny

English

Noun

(calumnies)
  • A falsification or misrepresentation intended to disparage or discredit another.
    • Accusations of abuse were pure extortive calumny in a malicious bid to make money .
  • False charges brought about to tarnish another's reputation or standing.

    • Derived terms

    * calumniate

    Synonyms

    * defamation * obloquy * vilification * See also

    traducement

    English

    Noun

  • The act of traducing; slander, calumny.
  • * 1605-1608? , William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    • Rome must know / The value of her own: 'twere a concealment / Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement , / To hide your doings; and to silence that, / Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd, / Would seem but modest...