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One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel
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traducer
Word definitions for traducer in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who traduces; one who maligns another by making malicious and false or defamatory statements. 2 Someone who traduces or translates from one language to another: a translator. 3 A utility that can facilitate traduction.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel [syn: defamer , maligner , slanderer , vilifier , libeler , backbiter ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, agent noun from traduce (v.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traducer \Tra*du"cer\, n. One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. --Bp. Hall. One who derives or deduces. [Obs.] --Fuller.
Usage examples of traducer.
I say, against this damnable race-prejudice, these professing Christians are often his worst enemies, his most malignant haters and traducers.
Marine Parade fronting it to the left, shaded sickly eyes, under a worn green verandah, from a sun that rarely appeared, as the traducers of spinsters pretend those virgins are ever keenly on their guard against him that cometh not.
Even as she had taken his part against his traducers, so she now was stirred in spirit against his murderers.
Enderby tried to harden his heart against him, traitor, traducer, diluter, sinner against literature.