Both Uses of
discredit
in
Vanity Fair
- No one will say it is unmanly to be captivated by a woman, or, being captivated, to marry her; and the admiration, the delight, the passion, the wonder, the unbounded confidence, and frantic adoration with which, by degrees, this big warrior got to regard the little Rebecca, were feelings which the ladies at least will pronounce were not altogether discreditable to him.
Chpt 16discreditable = tending to damage the reputation ofstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- He did not believe a word of the story, and yet, how discredit or disprove it?
Chpt 55 *discredit = cause distrust of or disbelief in
Definition:
damage the reputation of -- often causing distrust of or disbelief in