Discredit Meaning

"Many of our correspondents participated in the discussion, and the upshot was that the alleged record was discredited." — 1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:

"Mr. Burton disbelieves it, and has brought sufficient reasons for his discredit of so improbable a story." — 1846, The London Quarterly Review, page 45:

"It would have been too serious a task to verify his numerous citations in our very careful reading for the present notice; but we are bound to say that, observing his discredit of some of the passages which he quotes from a contemporary American writer, and struck ourselves with the apparent inexactness of the statements in teste extracts (pp. 579, 616, 647), we were led to compare his citations, and, to our surprise, we find them incorrect and even garbled, and in one place where he had queried (thus (?)) the fact, we were surprised to find the doubt pertained to one of his own interpolations in the extracts." — 1892, The Nation; Volume 55, page 244:

"Madan encouraged many believers in the supremacy of justice to struggle for human rights within the established systems in order to purify the image of the national institutions against any discredits by biased and unjust people." — 1987, The Nairobi Law Monthly, page 142:

"As we find in a number of parts of Cho\ng's writings his belief in the personified image of Heaven and his discredit of the fundamental and universal nature and the ultimacy of li, we find it difficult to assume that he was not affected by the Jesuit writings he had read." — 1995, Edward Malatesta, Yves Raguin, Images de la Chine: