Disrepute vs Repugnance - What's the difference?
disrepute | repugnance | Related terms |
Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
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* Sir Walter Scott
To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
extreme aversion, repulsion
contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
*1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
*:Discourses vain, inconsistant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.
Disrepute is a related term of repugnance.
As nouns the difference between disrepute and repugnance
is that disrepute is loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit while repugnance is repugnance.As a verb disrepute
is to bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.disrepute
English
Noun
(-)- 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.
- At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute .