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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disgrace \Dis*grace"\ (?; 277), n. [F. disgr[^a]ce; pref. dis-
     (L. dis-) + gr[^a]ce. See {Grace}.]
     1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor,
        regard, or respect.
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              Macduff lives in disgrace.            --Shak.
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     2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame;
        dishonor; shame; ignominy.
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              To tumble down thy husband and thyself
              From top of honor to disgrace's feet? --Shak.
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     3. That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach;
        great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational
        being.
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     4. An act of unkindness; a disfavor. [Obs.]
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              The interchange continually of favors and disgraces.
                                                    --Bacon.
  
     Syn: Disfavor; disesteem; opprobrium; reproach; discredit;
          disparagement; dishonor; shame; infamy; ignominy;
          humiliation.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disgrace \Dis*grace"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgraced}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Disgracing}.] [Cf. F. disgracier. See {Disgrace}, n.]
     1. To put out of favor; to dismiss with dishonor.
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              Flatterers of the disgraced minister. --Macaulay.
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              Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of
              Newcastle dismissed.                  --J. Morley.
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     2. To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to
        dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in
        estimation.
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              Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace.
                                                    --Pope.
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              His ignorance disgraced him.          --Johnson.
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     3. To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile.
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              The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace.
                                                    --Spenser.
  
     Syn: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame;
          dishonor; debase.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disgrace
       n : a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his
           family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"
           [syn: {shame}, {ignominy}]
       v 1: bring shame or dishonor upon; "he dishonored his family by
            committing a serious crime" [syn: {dishonor}, {dishonour},
             {attaint}, {shame}] [ant: {honor}]
       2: reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends
          to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took
          him down after the lecture" [syn: {take down}, {degrade},
          {demean}, {put down}]
       3: damage the reputation of; "This newspaper story discredits
          the politicians" [syn: {discredit}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "disgrace":
     abasement, abomination, asperse, aspersion, atrocity, bad,
     belittle, belittling, besmirch, black eye, black mark, blacken,
     blemish, blot, brand, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low,
     bring shame upon, burning shame, byword, byword of reproach,
     cast reproach upon, comedown, contempt, cry down, debase,
     debasement, debasing, decrial, decry, defame, deflate, deflation,
     defrock, degradation, degrade, deplume, depreciate, depreciation,
     derogate from, derogation, descent, desecration, detract from,
     detraction, dirty shame, disapproval, disapprove of, discredit,
     discrediting, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, disparage,
     disparagement, displume, disrepute, dump, embarrass, embarrassment,
     error, evil, faint praise, hangdog look, harm, hold in contempt,
     humble, humbled pride, humbling, humiliate, humiliation, ignominy,
     impute shame to, indignity, infamy, iniquity, knavery, knock,
     knocking, let down, letdown, low-down dirty shame,
     lukewarm support, make little of, minimize, minimizing,
     mortification, mortify, obliquity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium,
     pity, profanation, put down, put out, put to shame, put-down,
     putting down, reflect discredit upon, reproach, reprobacy,
     run down, sacrilege, scandal, scandalize, self-abasement,
     self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setdown, shame, shamefacedness,
     shamefastness, sin, slight, slighting, slur, smear, smirch,
     sour grapes, speak ill of, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatize,
     submit to indignity, sully, taint, tarnish, terrible thing,
     unfrock, vilification, vilify, villainy, violation, vitiate,
     vitiation, wrong
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DISGRACE. Ignominy, shame, dishonor. No witness is required to disgrace 
  himself. 13 How. St. Tr. 17, 334; 16 How. St. Tr. 161. Vide Crimination; To 
  Degrade. 
  
  

















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