disreputation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
dis- + reputation
Noun[edit]
disreputation (countable and uncountable, plural disreputations)
- (archaic) Loss or lack of reputation or good name; dishonour; disrepute.
- 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
- a disreputation of piety
Translations[edit]
loss or lack of reputation
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disreputation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)