About The Word Repute
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Repute
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What's The Definition Of Repute?
[n] the state of being held in high esteem and honor
[v] look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician" [v] attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" Synonyms | Synonyms for Repute: ascribe | assign | attribute | esteem | impute | look on | look upon | regard as | reputation | take to be | think of Related Terms | Find terms related to Repute: See Also | accredit | anthropomorphise | anthropomorphize | believe | blame | carnalize | character | charge | conceive | consider | credit | externalise | externalize | fame | honor | honour | interiorise | interiorize | internalise | internalize | judge | laurels | name | personate | personify | project | reattribute | sensualize | stock | think Repute In Webster's Dictionary \Re*pute"\ (r?-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reputed}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Reputing}.] [F. r['e]puter, L. reputare to
count over, think over; pref. re- re- + putare to count,
think. See {Putative}.]
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? --Job xviii.
3.
The king your father was reputed for A prince most
prudent. --Shak.
\Re*pute"\, 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. --Milton. 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.'' --F. Beaumont. |
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