Disrepute vs Repute - What's the difference?
disrepute | repute | Related terms |
Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
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* Sir Walter Scott
To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
Reputation, especially a good reputation.
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*: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.
To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
* Bible, Job xviii. 3
* Shakespeare
Repute is a related term of disrepute.
As nouns the difference between disrepute and repute
is that disrepute is loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit while repute is reputation, especially a good reputation.As verbs the difference between disrepute and repute
is that disrepute is to bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor while repute is to attribute or credit something to something; to impute.disrepute
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(-)- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute .
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(reput)- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
- The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.