[f. prec. + -MENT.] The, or an, action of traducing; defamation, calumny, slander.
1597. J. King, On Jonas (1618), 542. Innocent Christians, after their slanderous and false traducements, carried to their deathes.
1607. Shaks., Cor., I. ix. 22. ’Twere a Concealement worse then a Theft, No lesse then a Traducement, To hide your doings.
1839. John Bull, 19 May. Lady … would have been unjustly immolated … by atrocious traducements there propagated.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, II. 140. For ’gainst the stranger calumny Flows deftly from the tongue, and sweet traducement Costs not a thought.
