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单词 discredit
释义 I. discredit, n.|dɪsˈkrɛdɪt|
[f. dis- 9 + credit n., after discredit v.; cf. Sp. descredito (Minsheu 1599), It. discredito, F. discrédit (1719 in Littré).]
1. Loss or want of credit; impaired reputation; disrepute, reproach; an instance of this.
1565Act 8 Eliz. c. 7. §1 The Slander and Discredit of the said Commodities in Foreign Parts, where..they are grown out of Estimation and Credit.1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 290 Penning infamous libels to the discredit of his freende.1591Greene Disc. Coosnage (1592) 9 Either driuen to run away, or to liue in discredite for euer.1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. i. §i. 3 Learning..I thinke good to deliuer..from the discredites and disgraces which it hath receiued.1749Fielding Tom Jones, Both religion and virtue have received more real discredit from hypocrites, than..infidels could ever cast upon them.1791Boswell Johnson Advt., A failure would have been to my discredit.1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 342 Such conduct brings discredit on the name of Athens.
2. Loss or want of belief or confidence; disbelief, distrust.
1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xl. (1739) 63 The Saxons were utter enemies to Perjury; they punished it with eternal discredit of testimony.1863Geo. Eliot Romola iii. xxxix, There were obvious facts that at once threw discredit on the printed document.1868Morn. Star 25 Feb., The answers..had the effect of throwing discredit upon his previous evidence.
b. Comm. Loss or want of commercial credit.
1740W. Douglass Discourse 30 Insensibility of Discredit, does naturally follow long Credit.1779Franklin Lett. Wks. (1889) VI. 355 Any measure attending the discredit of the bills.1861Goschen For. Exch. 105 The influence of credit or discredit will not be forgotten.1885Pall Mall G. 13 Apr. 5/1 The course of the discount market depends upon credit or discredit, as the case may be.
II. discredit, v.|dɪsˈkrɛdɪt|
[f. dis- 6 + credit v.: prob. after F. discrédit-er (16th c. in Littré), or It. discreditare.]
1. trans. To refuse to credit, give no credit to; to disbelieve.
1559Bp. Scot in Strype Ann. Ref. I. App. vii. 17 If they returne to the truthe agayne, their testimonies in the truthe be not to be discredetid.1656Bramhall Replic. ii. 100 To discredit any one of these lesser truths..is as much as to deny the truth of God.1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 201 A statement which there is no reason to discredit.1871Alabaster Wheel of Law 251, I see no particular reason to discredit the Ceylonese tradition.
2. To show to be unworthy of belief; to take away the credibility of; to destroy confidence in.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. viii. 19 Now let these dogges deny [it]..or let them discredit the historie.1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 69 If he shall seeke to discredit the whole worke.1656Bramhall Replic. v. 206, I spake..this..to discredit that supposititious treatise.1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 97 The behaviour of the Rabble without very much discredited the Miracle.1866J. Martineau Ess. I. 161 The idea is..discredited by modern science.
3. To injure the credit or reputation of; to bring into discredit, disrepute, or loss of esteem.
1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 60 Doist thou not verelye suppose I shalbe utterlye discredditid and quite disgracid for ever?1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 191 He obscureth the parents he came off, and discrediteth his owne estate.1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 63 Many retired themselves from this Party, which for a time was much discredited.1769Robertson Chas. V, V. v. 400 In order to recover the reputation of his arms, discredited by so many losses.1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. App. 636 Henry is said to have been discredited for the death of Thomas.
b. To injure the commercial credit of. Obs.
1622[see discredited].1732De Foe Eng. Tradesman ii. 25 The clothier is discourag'd, and for want of his money discredited.
Hence disˈcrediting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1571St. Trials, Duke Norfolk (R.), It is not for my Lord of Norfolk to stand so much upon the discrediting the witnesses.1589Cooper Admon. 21 Which they looke to bring to passe, by the discrediting of the Bishops.1770J. Clubbe Physiognomy 73 Any discrediting circumstances.1892Athenæum 6 Feb. 173/1 The utter and final discrediting of the Government.
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