disreputation

[dis-rep-yuh-tey-shuhn]

noun

Archaic.

1. disrepute.

Word History and Origins

Origin of disreputation¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; dis- ¹ + reputation

Example Sentences

We must expect," they said, "that you do not intermeddle in any ways upon the business of the Flanders correspondence, or enter into any sort of treaty for the port of letters or jobbing of places which may bring us under any inconveniencys or our authority under any disreputation.

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Notwithstanding they allow both the man and the wife to part upon disagreement, yet so great is the disreputation of a divorce, that married people, to avoid the character of inconstant and ungenerous, very rarely let their quarrels proceed to a separation.

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Her greatness held it no disreputation To take the needle in her royal hand; Which was a good example to our nation To banish idleness from out her land: And thus this Queene, in wisdom thought it fit, The needle’s worke pleas’d her, and she grac’d it.”

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Her greatness held it no disreputation To hold the needle in her royal hand, Which was a good example to our nation To banish idleness throughout the land.

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As things now stand, it may easily be seen, that Prosecutions for Raillery and Irony would not be relish’d well by the Publick, and would probably turn to the Disreputation and Disgrace of the Prosecutor.

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