2. To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust
in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.
An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of
discrediting our common English Bible. --Strype.
2. To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach
upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.
He. . . least discredits his travels who returns the
same man he went. --Sir H.
Wotton.