Definition of "repute"

repute

/ɹɪˈpjuːt/

noun
usually uncountable, plural reputes
1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.
  Quotations
  At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […]
verb
third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed
1. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
2. (transitive) To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
  Quotations
  Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Job 18:3
  The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.
  1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iv]
  If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.
  1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated

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repute

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