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Repute

//ɹɪˈpjuːt// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Reputation, especially a good reputation. uncountable, usually

    "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."

  2. 2
    the state of being held in high esteem and honor wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  2. 2
    look on as or consider wordnet
  3. 3
    To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

    "Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo (“I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + puto (“I think”).

Etymology 2

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo (“I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + puto (“I think”).

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