repute meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

repute

noun

/ɹɪˈpjuːt/

Etymology From Old French reputer, from Latin reputō (“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + putō (“to think”).

Usually Reputation, especially a good reputation.

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.1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

Derived terms: disrepute, habit and repute, ill repute, marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute, marriage by habit and repute, reputable, reputation, reputeless

repute

verb

Etymology From Old French reputer, from Latin reputō (“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + putō (“to think”).

To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.

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?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 18:3:
The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

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If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:

Derived terms: misrepute, reputability, reputee, reputeless

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