单词 | discreditation |
释义 | discreditationn. Originally U.S. The action or process of discrediting someone or something, or of being discredited; an instance of this. Frequently with of. ΚΠ 1924 31st Biennial Rep. Superintendent Public Instr. (State of Calif.) 56 Discreditation of any teacher who has recommended three pupils who fail in any one school year. 1940 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 40 853/2 Brief additions to this chapter also include..a discreditation of the use of the term endothelioma. 1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 10 Oct. 19/8 If they would permit subsequent discreditation of the verdicts, jurors would be constantly solicited by dissatisfied litigants. 1990 B. Wilshire Moral Collapse of University vi. 146 What implicit a priori grounds are so convincing and powerful that an empirical scientist in the grip of them would risk easy discreditation? 2002 M. P. Steger Globalism iii. 74 The most obvious strategy through which neoliberals generate popular support for the equation of democracy and the market is through a discreditation of traditionalism and socialism. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1924 |
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