disreputationt (disreputashon)

[ I will tell you what was the course in the happy days of Queen Elizabeth, whom it is no disreputation to follow. Bacon. Jesus refused to be relieved,. do an act, which. rather than he would might be expounded a disreputation to God's providence. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 100. What disreputation is it to Horace, that Juvenal excels in the tragical satire, as Horace does in the comical? Dryden, Orig. and Prog. of Satire. disrepute (dis-re-put'), n. [ dis- priv. + re pute .] Lo or want of reputation; disesteem; discredit; dishonor. The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute . Scott, Guy Manner ing, iv Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 117. The colony was fast falling into disrepute . =Syn. Ill repute, low esteem, disrespect. disreputet (dis-re-put'), v. t. [ Grant that I may so walk that I neither disrepute the honour of the Christian institution, nor stain the whitene es of that innocence which thou didst invest my soul withal. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 102.