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Traduce vs Deduce - What's the difference?

traduce | deduce |

In lang=en terms the difference between traduce and deduce

is that traduce is to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements while deduce is to reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.

As verbs the difference between traduce and deduce

is that traduce is to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements while deduce is to reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.

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 ----

    deduce

    English

    Verb

  • To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes / From the dire nation in its early times?
  • * John Locke
  • Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors.
  • (obsolete) To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
  • to deduce a part from the whole
    (Ben Jonson)
  • (obsolete, Latinism) To lead forth.
  • * Selden
  • He should hither deduce a colony.

    Usage notes

    For example, from the premises "all good people believe in the tooth fairy" and "Jimmy does not believe in the tooth fairy", we deduce the conclusion "Jimmy is not a good person". This particular form of deduction is called a syllogism. Note that in this case we reach a false conclusion by correct deduction from a false premise.

    Antonyms

    * (reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic)

    Synonyms

    * (reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic)

    Anagrams

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