Disrepute
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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
1: Ἀπελεγμός (Strong'S #557 — Noun Masculine — apelegmos — ap-el-eg-mos' )
from apo, "from," and elencho, "to refute," denotes "censure, repudiation" (of something shown to be worthless), hence, "contempt," "disrepute," Acts 19:27 , RV, "(come into) disrepute," for AV, "(to be) set at nought." It is akin to apelencho, "to convict, refute" (not in the NT), elencho, "to convict," elenxis, "rebuke," and elegmos, "reproof." See Nought.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
(2): ( v. t.) To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
King James Dictionary [3]
Disrepute n. dis and repute. Loss or want of reputation disesteem discredit dishonor. The alchimist and his books have sunk into disrepute.
