Detractor vs Traduce - What's the difference?
detractor | traduce |
A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
* 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]
To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
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(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:
As a noun detractor
is a person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.As a verb traduce is
to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.detractor
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Alternative forms
* detractour (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.
Synonyms
* slanderer * libeler * cynic * mudslinger * defamerAntonyms
* proponent * supportertraduce
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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.
