Depreciate vs Traduce - What's the difference?
depreciate | traduce | Synonyms |
To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
* (rfdate) Cudworth
* (rfdate) Burke
To decline in value over time.
To belittle.
To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
* , scene 4
(archaic) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , X:
(archaic) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
* 1865 , "The Last of the Tercentenary", Temple Bar , vol. XIII, Mar 1865:
In transitive terms the difference between depreciate and traduce
is that depreciate is to belittle while traduce is to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.depreciate
English
Verb
(depreciat)- some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate .
- To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
Usage notes
* Do not confuse with deprecate , which means 'to disapprove of'. The meaning of deprecate'' has lately been encroaching on ''depreciate in the sense 'to belittle'.Synonyms
* (reduce in value over time) * (belittle) do downAntonyms
* (reduce in value over time) appreciate * (belittle) aggrandise/aggrandize, big up (slang)traduce
English
Verb
(traduc)- This heavy-headed revel east and west
Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
- However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son [...].
- From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved'' ''Macbaeth'' to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of ''Hamlet , and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.
