Taylor really wants to show that the [American] Revolution was anything but the “good, orderly, restrained and successful” event usually depicted “in popular history books and films.” [He] aims to desacralize the Revolution, … to rip aside the mantle of nobility, dignity and heroism that he believes has too long covered up its sordid and bloody reality. (Gordon Wood, “How the American Revolution Worked Against, Blacks, Indians and Women,” The New York Times, 06/16/2016.)
This word, when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for discredit.
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