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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... was one of the most wretched-looking dwellings in this street of evil repute. The plaster was cracked, the walls themselves seemed bulging outward, preparatory to a final collapse. The ceilings were low, and supported by beams black ...

— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... within very recent times that the daylight of facts has begun to dissipate the mists of the French legend of 1789. Even Republican writers of repute now disdain to concern themselves more seriously with the so-called histories of Thiers, of Mignet, and of Lamartine than with the Chevalier de Maison-Rouge of Alexandre Dumas and the Charlotte ...

— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert

... conquests, the Osmanlis inherited, and in a measure retain in the Near East, the traditional prestige of the greatest empire which ever held it. They stand not only for their own past but also for whatever still lives of the prestige of Rome. Theirs is still the repute of the imperial people par excellence, chosen ...

— The Balkans - A History Of Bulgaria--Serbia--Greece--Rumania--Turkey • Nevill Forbes, Arnold J. Toynbee, D. Mitrany, D.G. Hogarth

... doctrine, half a century ago. Commentaries, sanctioned by the highest authority, give up the "actual historical truth" of the cosmogonical and diluvial narratives. University professors of deservedly high repute accept the critical decision that the Hexateuch is a compilation, in which the share of Moses, either as author or as editor, is not quite so clearly demonstrable as it might be; highly placed Divines tell us that the ...

— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley

... independence and a want of superstitious belief in the Prophet's "revelations." Polygamy prevents this. It shuts the door of Gentile sympathy against the Mormon. The Mormon women are beings disgraced among the Gentiles; they must defend their good repute. The children of polygamous marriages must defend polygamy to defend their own legitimacy. The practice, which doubtless had its beginning solely to produce as rapidly as might be a Church strength, now acts as a bar to the member's escape; wherefore the President, his two ...

— The Mormon Menace - The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite • John Doyle Lee

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