traducement

English

Etymology

traduce +‎ -ment

Noun

traducement (countable and uncountable, plural traducements)

1. The act of traducing; slander, calumny.
   • 1605-1608?, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

     Rome must know / The value of her own: 'twere a concealment / Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, / To hide your doings; and to silence that, / Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd, / Would seem but modest...