Sentence:  As we find in a number of parts of Cho\ng's writings his belief in the personified image of Heaven and his <WSD>discredit</WSD> of the fundamental and universal nature and the ultimacy of li, we find it difficult to assume that he was not affected by the Jesuit writings he had read. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Discrediting or disbelieving.