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discredit

DISCREDIT, n. [See the Verb.]

1. Want of credit or good reputation; some degree of disgrace or reproach; disesteem; applied to persons or things. Frauds in manufactures bring them into discredit.

It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.

2. Want of belief, trust or confidence; disbelief; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

DISCREDIT, v.t.

1. To disbelieve; to give no credit to; not to credit or believe; as, the report is discredited.

2. To deprive of credit or good reputation; to make less reputable or honorable; to bring into disesteem; to bring into some degree of disgrace, or into disrepute.

He least discredits his travels, who returns the same man he went.

Our virtues will be often discredited with the appearance of evil.

3. To deprive of credibility.



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DISCREDIT, n. [See the Verb.]

1. Want of credit or good reputation; some degree of disgrace or reproach; disesteem; applied to persons or things. Frauds in manufactures bring them into discredit.

It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.

2. Want of belief, trust or confidence; disbelief; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

DISCREDIT, v.t.

1. To disbelieve; to give no credit to; not to credit or believe; as, the report is discredited.

2. To deprive of credit or good reputation; to make less reputable or honorable; to bring into disesteem; to bring into some degree of disgrace, or into disrepute.

He least discredits his travels, who returns the same man he went.

Our virtues will be often discredited with the appearance of evil.

3. To deprive of credibility.

DIS-CRED'IT, n. [Fr. discredit; Sp. discredito; It. scredito. See the verb.]

  1. Want of credit or good reputation; some degree of disgrace or reproach; disesteem; applied to persons or things. Frauds in manufactures bring them into discredit. It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession. Rogers.
  2. Want of belief, trust or confidence; disbelief; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

DIS-CRED'IT, v.t. [Fr. decrediter; de, des, dis, and credit.]

  1. To disbelieve; to give no credit to; not to credit or believe; as, the report is discredited.
  2. To deprive of credit or good reputation; to make less reputable or honorable; to bring into disesteem; to bring into some degree of disgrace, or into disrepute. He least discredits his travels, who returns the same man he went. – Wotton. Our virtues will be often discredited with the appearance of evil. – Rogers.
  3. To deprive of credibility. – Shak.

Dis*cred"it
  1. The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
  2. To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.
  3. Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things.

    It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession. Rogers.

    Syn. -- Disesteem; disrepute; dishonor; disgrace; ignominy; scandal; disbelief; distrust.

  4. To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.

    An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible. Strype.

  5. To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.

    He. . . least discredits his travels who returns the same man he went. Sir H. Wotton.

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Discredit

DISCREDIT, noun [See the Verb.]

1. Want of credit or good reputation; some degree of disgrace or reproach; disesteem; applied to persons or things. Frauds in manufactures bring them into discredit

It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.

2. Want of belief, trust or confidence; disbelief; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit

DISCREDIT, verb transitive

1. To disbelieve; to give no credit to; not to credit or believe; as, the report is discredited.

2. To deprive of credit or good reputation; to make less reputable or honorable; to bring into disesteem; to bring into some degree of disgrace, or into disrepute.

He least discredits his travels, who returns the same man he went.

Our virtues will be often discredited with the appearance of evil.

3. To deprive of credibility.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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