traducement

English

Etymology

traduce +‎ -ment

Noun

traducement (countable and uncountable, plural traducements)

  1. The act of traducing; slander, calumny.
    • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      Rome must know / The value of her own: 'twere a concealment / Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, / To hide your doings; and to silence that, / Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd, / Would seem but modest...
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