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Webster 1913 Edition
Disrepute
Disˊre-pute′
,Noun.
Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
Syn. – Disesteem; discredit; dishonor; disgrace.
Disˊre-pute′
,Verb.
T.
To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
[R.]
More inclined to love them than to
disrepute
them. Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disrepute
DISREPUTE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
disrepute
disrepute
English
Noun
disrepute (uncountable)
- Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- Sir Walter Scott
- At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
Translations
Verb
disrepute (third-person singular simple present disreputes, present participle disreputing, simple past and past participle disreputed)
- To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
Translations
bring into disreputation
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