different between humiliation vs disrepute

English

Etymology

From Middle French humiliation, from Late Latin humiliatio, from humiliare (“to humiliate”); see humiliate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hju??m?li?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

humiliation (countable and uncountable, plural humiliations)

1. The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.
2. The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

   •     One morning Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln were having breakfast when Lincoln did something that aroused the fiery temper of his wife. What, no one remembers now. But Mrs. Lincoln, in a rage, dashed a cup of hot coffee into her husband's face. And she did it in front of the other boarders.
         Saying nothing, Lincoln sat there in humiliation and silence while Mrs. Early came with a wet towel and wiped off his face and clothes.

Synonyms

• abasement
• dishonor
• embarrassment
• mortification
• shame

Antonyms

• honor
• exaltation

Related terms

• humble
• humiliate
• humiliating
• humility

Translations

Further reading

• humiliation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• humiliation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Late Latin humili?ti?.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /y.mi.lja.sj??/

Noun

humiliation f (plural humiliations)

1. A humiliation, active or passive

Synonyms

• abaissement

Related terms

• humiliant

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “humiliation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

dis- +? repute

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???pju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

disrepute (uncountable)

1. Loss or want of reputation; ill character.

   Synonyms: disesteem, discredit

   • 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

     The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.

Usage notes

Often used in the construction be in disrepute, bring someone (or something) into disrepute or fall into disrepute.

Translations

Verb

disrepute (third-person singular simple present disreputes, present participle disreputing, simple past and past participle disreputed)

1. To bring into disrepute; to hold in dishonor.

Translations

Anagrams

• redispute, superdiet, supertide