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Word Meanings - TRADUCEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.

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  • OPPROBRIUM
    Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
  • SLANDEROUS
    1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
  • TRADUCEMENT
    The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
  • LAMPOONER
    The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers." Tatler.
  • PUBLICATION
    1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
  • SLANDER
    Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
  • LIBELLEE
    The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action. The defendant in an action of libel.
  • LIBELANT
    One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. Cranch.
  • BACKBITER
    One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
  • BACKBITING
    Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.
  • LAMPOON
    A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden. (more info) drink, -- the burden of such
  • LIBELLULID
    A dragon fly.
  • SLANDERER
    One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
  • LIBEL
    A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law. Note: The term, in a more
  • LIBELIST
    A libeler.
  • DEFAMATORY
    Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.
  • DEFAMATION
    Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion. Note: In modern usage, written defamation bears the title
  • BACKBITE
    To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.
  • LIBELER
    One who libels. " Libelers of others." Buckkminster.
  • LAMPOONRY
    The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons.
  • ISLANDER
    An inhabitant of an island.
  • BELIBEL
    To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.
  • DISSLANDER
    To slander. Legend of Dido.
  • REPUBLICATION
    A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifically, the publication in one country of a work first issued in another; a reprint. If there be many

 

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