discredit vs repute

discredit

noun
  • A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution. 

  • A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach. 

  • The state of being discredited or disbelieved. 

  • Discrediting or disbelieving. 

verb
  • To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable. 

repute

noun
  • Reputation, especially a good reputation. 

verb
  • To attribute or credit something to something; to impute. 

  • To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something 

How often have the words discredit and repute occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )