Repute \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.
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in
your sight? --Job xviii.
3.
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The king your father was reputed for
A prince most prudent. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Repute \Re*pute"\, n.
1. Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good
or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
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He who regns
Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure
Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute. --Milton.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
repute
n : the state of being held in high esteem and honor [syn: reputation]
[ant: disrepute]
v : look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a
joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician";
"He is reputed to be intelligent" [syn: think of, regard
as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be]
WordNet (r) 2.0
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "repute":
ascendancy, assume, authority, be afraid, believe, celebrity,
character, charisma, charm, clout, conceive, conclude, consequence,
consider, control, credit, custom, daresay, deduce, deem, dignity,
distinction, divine, dominance, domination, dream, eclat, effect,
eminence, enchantment, esteem, expect, fame, fancy, favor, feel,
force, gather, glory, good feeling, good name, goodwill, grant,
greatness, hold, honor, imagine, importance, incidental power,
infer, influence, influentiality, insinuation, leadership, let,
let be, leverage, magnetism, mastery, memorability, moment, name,
notability, noteworthiness, notoriety, opine, patronage,
personality, persuasion, potency, power, predominance, prefigure,
preponderance, pressure, prestige, presume, presuppose, presurmise,
prominence, provisionally accept, purchase, reckon, reign,
remarkableness, renown, rep, report, reputation, rule, salience,
say, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, suppose, supremacy,
surmise, suspect, sway, take, take for, take for granted, take it,
take to be, think, trade, understand, upper hand, weight,
whip hand
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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