disreputation

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And is not that the period in which our conduct or misconduct gives us a reputation or disreputation, that almost inseparably accompanies us throughout our whole future lives?

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  1. Privation of reputation or good name; disrepute; disesteem; dishonor; disgrace; discredit. I will tell you what was the course in the happy days of Queen Elizabeth, whom it is no disreputation to follow. Bacon. Jesus refused to be relieved, … rather than he would do an act, which … might be expounded a disreputation to God's providence. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 100. What disreputation is it to Horace, that Juvenal excels in the tragical satire, as Horace does in the comical? Dryden, Orig. and Prog. of Satire.

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