0 (something that causes) loss of good reputation. -- vanry, skam, miskreditt
1 to show (a story etc) to be false -- bringe i vanry/miskreditt
That theory has now been discredited.
2 to disgrace -- gi et dårlig rykte/omdømme, vanære
The scandal discredited his reputation.
With science discredited, there was a need for alternative (and anti-realist) forms of staging.
Generalisation from input without the pre-requirement for grammatical architecture or a symbolic system, for so long discredited as behaviourist, was now a tenable proposition.
With the regime's popularity and legitimacy discredited by these events, it sought ways to find a new source of legitimacy.
In the vari-directional case, the speaker voices the style with the intention of discrediting it (that is, parodies it).
The final eclipse of "proletarian race hygiene" came when the notion that acquired traits could be inherited was discredited in biology.
How can the abstract notion or idea of authority remain sacred when all around its embodiments are being discredited?
Both the army and the regime were also discredited.
To put it differently, the moral of the small-state realism remained when small-state realism itself was discredited.
