traducement

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of traducing; calumny, slander.

   “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: […]”

   “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...”