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Induce vs Traduce - What's the difference?

induce | traduce |

In transitive terms the difference between induce and traduce

is that induce is to cause, bring about, lead to while traduce is to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

induce

English

Verb

(induc)
  • To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
  • To cause, bring about, lead to.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
  • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992) , passage=A mere glance at the plot descriptions of the show’s fourth season is enough to induce Pavlovian giggle fits and shivers of joy. }}
  • (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
  • (logic) To infer by induction.
  • (obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
  • (obsolete) To draw on, place upon.
  • Synonyms

    * (to cause) bring about, instigate, prompt, stimulate, trigger, provoke

    Antonyms

    * (logic) deduce

    Anagrams

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    References

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    traduce

    English

    Verb

    (traduc)
  • To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
  • * , scene 4
  • This heavy-headed revel east and west
    Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
  • (archaic) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , X:
  • 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 [...].
  • (archaic) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
  • * 1865 , "The Last of the Tercentenary", Temple Bar , vol. XIII, Mar 1865:
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (pass on) hand down, bequeath, leave * (malign or defamatory statements) defame, libel, slander * (convert languages) translate * See also

    Derived terms

    * traducement * traducer * traducingly * traduction

    Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs ----