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Definition of Repute
1. Verb. Look on as or consider. "He is reputed to be intelligent"
Generic synonyms: Believe, Conceive, Consider, Think
Derivative terms: Reputation, Reputation, Reputation
2. Noun. The state of being held in high esteem and honor.
Generic synonyms: Honor, Honour, Laurels
Specialized synonyms: Black Eye, Stock, Character, Name, Fame
Attributes: Reputable, Disreputable
Antonyms: Disrepute
Definition of Repute
1. v. t. To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.
2. n. Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
Definition of Repute
1. Noun. Reputation, especially a good reputation. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Repute
1. to consider to be as specified [v -PUTED, -PUTING, -PUTES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repute
Literary usage of Repute
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Husband and Wife According to the Law of Scotland by Frederick Parker Walton (1893)
"HABIT AND repute. The Presumption of Marriage arising from Cohabitation and Habit
... Habit and repute arises from parties cohabiting together openly and ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1903)
"in high repute, when even freemen in great numbers eagerly turn to these professions ?"
" Certainly." XIV. " Can you possibly find a stronger proof of a ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Evidence of common repute as to location of boundary or corner.—Such evidence
according to the English rule is admissible only as to public ..."
4. Sunshine and shadow in New York by Matthew Hale Smith (1869)
"OI Ki« U repute. — FLUCTUATION OF CHURCHES. — GRACE CHURCH. — WAT- SIDE WORSHIP.
... CLERICAL repute. A local reputation will not serve a man in the city. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"But of them who are in repute (what they were some time, it is nothing to me.
God accepteth not the person of ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Cleavers was formerly of repute in household medicine as a diuretic, but is now
so used only in the most remote settlements. ..."
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