I speake not, Madam, with a thought to suffer A foule breath whisper your white name; for he That darestraduce it must beleeve me dead, Or my fame twisted with your honour must not Have pitty on the Accusers blood.
Come, you are wantons both: If I were absent, You would with as much willingness traduce My manners to them.
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traducemental qualities to one's descendants.
To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works.
When first I had the honour to be known to your Lordship, I could easily foresee that there would be persons enough that would envy me upon that account, and do what in them lay to traduce me.
But for you to insult over his old age, to traduce him by your scaramouches, and in your own person, as a schoolmaster, who was born and hath lived more ingenuously and liberally than yourself!
Captain Danvers, perhaps, like other Yankees, you preach against duelling, but do not scruple to traduce men who are not present to resent your words.
I do not stand on ceremony with those who traduce my friends," retorted the Southerner sneeringly.
Even the world of literature and taste is divided into the most virulent factions, which revile, decry, and traduce the works of one another.
Knowing nothing, then, of all these advantages, you still know as much as the would-be friend or physician who never loses an opportunity to traduce and misrepresent us, and prejudice the afflicted against us.
Many persons dilate upon these subjects with amazing flippancy, their mission seeming to be to traduce the profession rather than to act as help-mates and assistants.
In the October of this year, the Princess of Wales removed to Marseilles, weary of the attempts to traduce and insult her character by hirelings from the English court.
But I must mistake matters, if some of those men who traduce you, do not prefer the offers of Britain.
Skilled to condemn as to traduce mankind, This cord receive!
Deliuer me your hands, I loue you both, As deare as my owne soule, prooue me, and when I shall traduce you, make me the scorne of men.
The disaffected clergy poured forth sermons and libels, to impugn the principles of the whigs or traduce their characters.
Mr. Stephens, in passing sentence on him for a libel on Harley and Marlborough, that to traduce the queen's ministers was a reflection on the queen herself.
Who would imagine that such a glorious act of benevolence should ever be made a handle to traduce and vilify the author!
Not the least important of these charges is that I stepped aside from the line of my duty to traduce your fair name and reputation as citizens of Port Townsend.
Stand forth the villain, whose envenom'd tongue Would taint my honour, and traduce my name, Or stamp my conduct with a rebel's brand!
