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noun

Repute n.

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."

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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"Repute" Quotes from Famous Books

... game for two players, once very fashionable in France and of some repute in England; but now quite obsolete. Like Quadrille, it is encumbered with a vast number of rules and maxims, technical terms and calculations; all too long and tiresome ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... more than one of the brotherhood in thy care," added Crispus, "and hast the repute of a skilful physician; therefore I sent Ursus to ...

— Quo Vadis - A Narrative of the Time of Nero • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... otherwise than as a man of gallantry and intrepidity.'" He had been twenty-five years in service, and eleven afloat as a captain (Charnock's Biographia Navalis). Others of the condemned men bore fair characters; and even Richard Norris, who absconded to avoid trial, had been of respectable repute. ...

— The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 • A. T. Mahan

... "In their day they were the handsomest couple at court; and now, even in their dry bones, they seem to regard their former repute as an inalienable possession; to see their faces, however, may yet do something for them! They felt themselves rich too while they had pockets, but they have already begun to feel rather pinched! My ...

— Lilith • George MacDonald

... life was gained mostly in the Colegio de San Mateo between the years 1820 and 1830. This was a private school patronized by sons of the nobility and wealthy middle class. Two of the masters, Jos Gmez Hermosilla and Alberto Lista, were poets of repute. Lista was the best teacher of his time in Spain. The wide range of his knowledge astonished his pupils, and he appeared to them equally competent in the classics, modern languages, mathematics, philosophy and poetics, all of which subjects he knew so well that he never had to prepare a lecture ...

— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup

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