different between detraction vs discrediting

English

From Old French detraccion, from Latin detractio.

detraction (countable and uncountable, plural detractions)

The act of detracting something, or something detracted; taking away; diminution.
A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in General (sermon)
  If indeed we consider all the frivolous and petulant discourse, the impertinent chattings, the rash censures, the spiteful detractions which are so rife in the world […]
(Roman Catholic Church) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.

discrediting

discrediting (plural discreditings)

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