Traducer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who traduces; one who maligns another by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

    "I greatly mistrust that the Bohemian on our shores is a much-abused man. To his traducer, who casts up anarchism against him, he replies that the last census (1880) shows his people to have the fewest criminals of all in proportion to numbers."

  2. 2
    one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel wordnet

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"She was silent, and he went on with increasing vehemence: “I am still that Edgar Ravenswood who, for your affection, renounced the dear ties by which injured honour bound him to seek vengeance. I am that Ravenswood who, for your sake, forgave, nay, clasped hands in friendship with, the oppressor and pillager of his house, the traducer and murderer of his father.”"

Etymology

From traduce + -er, from Latin trādūcō.

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