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Opprobriate vs. Traduce — What's the Difference?

Opprobriate vs. Traduce — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Opprobriate and Traduce

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Opprobriate

To express opprobrium for or to view with opprobrium; to scorn.

Traduce

To make false or malicious statements about (someone) in order to cause humiliation or disgrace.

Opprobriate

Expressing opprobrium; disparaging.

Traduce

To fail to uphold; disregard or violate
"The appearance of things is ... that we have traduced our policy and violated our principles" (Patrick J. Buchanan).

Traduce

(transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
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Traduce

To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.

Traduce

To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.

Traduce

To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.

Traduce

To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works.

Traduce

To increase or distribute by propagation.
From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth.

Traduce

To draw away; to seduce.
I can forget the weaknessOf the traduced soldiers.

Traduce

To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of.

Traduce

To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt.
He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel.

Traduce

Speak unfavorably about;
She badmouthes her husband everywhere

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