0 present participle of discredit --
1 to cause people to stop respecting someone or believing in an idea or person: --
The correlation between discrediting the idea of a 'moral motive' and denying the idea of intrinsic, absolute concepts of good and evil is a very close one.
Stigma is a social attribute which is discrediting for an individual or group.
Social stigma involves inter-personal perception and interaction by concentrating on traits, viewed by the person possessing them, as discrediting in the eyes of others.
Earlier, on pages 136-137, he had discussed the use of ' discrediting mechanisms ' by those who do want to neuter the impact of diversity and disagreement on their cherished beliefs.
Even though it has performed the useful function of discrediting technological determinism, the concept suggests too narrow a set of influences that shape technology.
In this way opponents are automatically presented as conservatives; disposing of the old and discrediting opponents go hand in hand.
The crisis went some way towards discrediting the insider government-business relations.
The discrediting aspects of stigma were operationally defined as being thought less of by other people.
