Disrepute vs Vilification - What's the difference?
disrepute | vilification | 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.
Disrepute is a related term of vilification.
As nouns the difference between disrepute and vilification
is that disrepute is loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit while vilification is slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination.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 .