Repute Definition

rĭ-pyo͝ot
reputed, reputes, reputing
verb
reputed, reputes, reputing
To ascribe a particular fact or characteristic to.
A remarked that is reputed to Voltaire.
American Heritage
To consider or account (a person or thing) to be as specified; generally suppose or regard.
Your neighbor is reputed to be rich.
Webster's New World

To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.

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noun

Reputation.

Webster's New World
A good reputation.
A brand name of repute.
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Origin of Repute

  • Middle English reputen from Old French reputer from Latin reputāre to think over re- re- putāre to think over pau-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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

    From Wiktionary

Repute Sentence Examples

  • It enjoys some repute as a summer resort.

  • Tunstal was as good a Catholic as Bonner; he left a different repute behind him, a clear enough indication of a difference in their deeds.

  • The greater part of his career was associated with Vienna, where he acquired high repute as a literary journalist.

  • These need not detain us for long, since, however well some of them may have been executed, regard being had to their epoch, and whatever repute some of them may have achieved, they are, so far as general information and especially classification is concerned, wholly obsolete, and most of them almost useless except as matters of antiquarian interest.

  • It was necessary for his own good repute and the future of his work that a definitive sentence should be pronounced and his name cleared once and for all.

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Words Starting With

RREREP

Words Ending With

ETEUTE

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Words Starting With R and Ending With E

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With R6 Letter Words Ending With E