different between scandal vs disbelief

English

Etymology

From Middle French scandale (“indignation caused by misconduct or defamatory speech”), from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“that on which one trips, cause of offense”, literally “stumbling block”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”), from Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”). Cognate with Latin scand? (“to climb”). First attested from Old Northern French escandle, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via Old French esclandre, of slander.

Sense evolution from "cause of stumbling, that which causes one to sin, stumbling block" to "discredit to reputation, that which brings shame, thing of disgrace" is possibly due to early influence from other similar sounding words for infamy and disgrace (compare Old English scand (“ignominity, scandal, disgraceful thing”), Old High German scanda (“ignominy, disgrace”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (skanda, “shame, disgrace”)). See shand, shend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skænd?l/
• Rhymes: -ænd?l

Noun

scandal (countable and uncountable, plural scandals)

1. An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
   • 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:

     Well, yes, a couple of leaks are all very well, but it takes more than that... A big scandal perhaps. A political scandal. Or a scandal about something people really understand: Sex... or money.
2. Damage to one's reputation.
3. Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.

4. (theology) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
5. (theology) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
6. Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
   • 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, chapter 1

     Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his daughter, Mr. Harding would have remained a minor canon; but here probably Scandal lied, as she so often does; for even as a minor canon no one had been more popular among his reverend brethren in the close, than Mr. Harding; and Scandal, before she had reprobated Mr. Harding for being made precentor by his friend the bishop, had loudly blamed the bishop for having so long omitted to do something for his friend Mr. Harding.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Korean: ??? (seukaendeul)

Translations

Verb

scandal (third-person singular simple present scandals, present participle scandalling or scandaling, simple past and past participle scandalled or scandaled)

1. (obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.
2. (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
   • 1855, Robert Potts, Liber Cantabrigiensis

     A propensity to scandal may partly proceed from an inability to distinguish the proper objects of censure

Romanian

Etymology

From French scandale, from Latin scandalum.

Noun

scandal n (plural scandaluri)

1. scandal

Declension

English

Etymology

dis- +? belief.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?sb??li?f/

Noun

disbelief (usually uncountable, plural disbeliefs)

1. Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.

2. Astonishment.

3. The loss or abandonment of a belief; cessation of belief.
   • Laikwan Pang (2002) Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937, ?ISBN, page 99: “His later left-wing films prevented any pure and strong emotional attachment between the two sexes from gaining narrative momentum, which might reflect his gradual disbelief in romantic love.”
   • Gloria Neufeld Redekop (2012) Bad Girls and Boys Go to Hell (or not): Engaging Fundamentalist Evangelicalism, ?ISBN, page 246: “Just like the disbelief in Santa Claus happens gradually, I wondered if it was similar for people leaving their faith.”

Synonyms

• incredulity

Antonyms

• belief

Related terms

• misbelief
• unbelief
• disbelieve

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “disbelief”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• disbelief in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “disbelief” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.