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Repute   /ripjˈut/   Listen
noun
Repute  n.  
1.
Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate. "He who regns Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute."
2.
Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; opposed to disrepute. "Dead stocks, which have been of repute."



verb
Repute  v. t.  (past & past part. reputed; pres. part. reputing)  To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon. "Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?" "The king your father was reputed for A prince most prudent."






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... glory and good repute departed, its garrison gone, its drawbridge and moat things of the past, its very hangings and furnishings mouldering from long neglect, it hung over the valley, a past menace, an ...
— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... great deal too well pleased with himself to know how ill his friends were thinking of him, and was pursuing a very idle and pleasant, if unprofitable, life, without having the least notion of the hubbub he was creating, and the dreadful repute in which he was held by many good men. Coming out from a match at tennis with Mr. Batts, and pleased with his play and all the world, Harry overtook Colonel Wolfe, who had been on one of his visits to the lady of his heart. Harry held out his hand, which the Colonel took, but the latter's salutation ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

... long held in small repute by the early Americans, was, as we have pointed out, the buffalo range and the country of the Horse Indians—the Plains tribes who lived upon the buffalo. For a long time it was this Indian population which held back the white settlements of Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado. ...
— The Passing of the Frontier - A Chronicle of the Old West, Volume 26 in The Chronicles - Of America Series • Emerson Hough

... plead in the cause which the city of Oropus had depending; and the expectation of the public was greatly raised, both by the powers of the orator, which were then in the highest repute, and by the importance of the trial. Demosthenes, hearing the governors and tutors agree among themselves to attend the trial, with much importunity prevailed on his master to take him to hear the pleadings. The master, having some acquaintance ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various

... of cash payments be an insuperable obstacle in the way of a man of steady and respectable habits and good repute, obtaining advances in provisions from any merchant in his neighbourhood?-I believe it would help him very considerably. I consider that if it system of cash payments was introduced, [Page 418] a man would find ...
— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie


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