traducement

English edit

From traduce +‎ -ment.

traducement (countable and uncountable, plural traducements)

The act of traducing; calumny, slander.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 27, recto:
  Thus haue I deſcribed and opened as by a kinde of diſſection, thoſe peccant humors (the principall of them) vvhich hath not onely giuen impediment to the proficence of Learning, but haue giuen alſo occaſion, to the traducement thereof: […]
- 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 knovv / The value of her ovvn: 'tvvere a concealment / VVorſe than a theft, no leſs than a traducement, / To hide your doings; and to ſilence that, / VVhich, to the ſpire and top of praiſes vouch'd, / VVould ſeem but modeſt...