different between arraign vs discredit

English

Etymology

From Middle English arreinen, from Old French araisnier (“to address, to verify”) (whence modern French arraisonner (“to verify cargo, to arraign”)), from raison (“reason”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

arraign (third-person singular simple present arraigns, present participle arraigning, simple past and past participle arraigned)

1. To officially charge someone in a court of law.

2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.

   • They will not dare to arraign you for want of knowledge.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

arraign (plural arraigns)

1. Arraignment.

References

English

Etymology

dis- +? credit.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d?t

Verb

discredit (third-person singular simple present discredits, present participle discrediting, simple past and past participle discredited)

1. (transitive) To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.

   The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.

   The evidence would tend to discredit such a theory.

Synonyms

• demean, disgrace, dishonour, disprove, invalidate, tell against

Derived terms

• discreditor

Translations

Noun

discredit (countable and uncountable, plural discredits)

1. (countable or uncountable) Discrediting or disbelieving.
2. (countable) A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution.
3. (uncountable) The state of being discredited or disbelieved.

   Later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

4. (uncountable) A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.
   • 1815, Doctor Rogers, “A good Life the best Ornament of the Christian Profession” (sermon), in Family Lectures: or, a copious Collection of Sermons, F. C. and J. Rivington et al., page 351:

     It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.

Synonyms

• (degree of dishonour): demerit

Translations

References

• discredit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• discredit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Romanian

Etymology

From French discrédit.

Noun

discredit n (uncountable)

1. disrepute

Declension