Word: discreditment
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When Bernadette Soubirous first saw, or believed she saw, her shining Lady (1858), the local rationalists hauled her before the police, hired a psychiatrist for her, boarded up her healing spring, did everything possible to discredit her. At first only the primitive, the wretched, the poor, believed in her with the intensity of their massive, sorrowful faith. Bernadette's priest (Charles Bickford) found it painfully hard to believe her. The Roman Catholic Church was cautious, but at last was convinced, and Bernadette spent her last years in a convent...
...Webster: "A defamatory falsehood published for political effect." The word was coined after "excerpts" from a non-existent Travels of Baron Roorback were published in 1844 to discredit James K. Polk...
...Star-Times triumphantly editorialized on Page One: "Strange and decadent journalism that, in order to embarrass or discredit a competitor, lines up on the side of suppression, censorship and whitewash." The Globe-Democrat and the Post-Dispatch had nothing...
...when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew in songs through their mouths." When Confucius became Chief Minister to Duke Ting of Lu, his theory of government was applied on a large scale-perhaps to discredit it, for "Rotten wood cannot be carved." The young Duke was led away from Confucian precepts by the insidious gift of 80 dancing girls from a neighboring ruler jealous of the prosperity and the magical reformation in manners that came with Confucius' government...
...Sicily when nerves of officers and men had been severely strained." The Army & Navy Journal was even blunter: "General Patton [is] familiar with the Articles of War, and with the punishment of dismissal they prescribe for cruel treatment of a soldier or for conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the Service . . . [Patton] was not made subject to the Articles. . . . There are lessons to be drawn from this deplorable affair which the High Command hereafter should enforce. The kind of a democratic Army we have requires . . . discipline based upon mutual respect. . . . Officers, no matter what their rank, guilty...